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Each man must live as an end ...

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

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But what man does out of desp...

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

You must be the kind of man w...

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Those who grant sympathy to g...

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

i cannot be called upon to kn...

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you...

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Whether it’s a symphony or a ...

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

People, he thought, were as h...

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Definitions are the guardians...

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

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To abstain from condemning a ...

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

I've always thought that a fe...

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

People want nothing but mirro...

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

America's skyscrapers were no...

America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Ask anything of men. Ask them...

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Life is a value to be bought ...

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

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For the coming of that day sh...

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

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Every coercive monopoly was c...

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

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Collectivism requires self-sa...

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

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All the reasons which made th...

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

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For centuries, the mystics of...

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

Ayn Rand 1072 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....