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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man'...more

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Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”“Of course.”“That’s not the reaction of most peopl...more

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Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

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There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expressi...more

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When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.

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Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you lo...more

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The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of...more

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I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend o...more

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Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

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He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no j...more

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Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once...There’s a special, insidious kind of hatred for him. Th...more

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It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s...more

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My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...