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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any v...more

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your m...more

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake ...more

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You ...more

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It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickl...more

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It ...more

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It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world’s doctrine...more

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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

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Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what...more

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Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark ga...more

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But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.That, said the Dean, i...more

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I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

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..each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wonder...more

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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.