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Just as man can't exist withou...

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

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From the smallest necessity to...

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

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Man's unique reward, however, ...

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

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Rights are not a matter of num...

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

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To arrive at a contradiction i...

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

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If you saw Atlas, the giant wh...

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?' I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him?' To shrug.

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But what man does out of despa...

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.

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Reason can be fought with reas...

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don't have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

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There's nothing as significant...

There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

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She knew that even pain can be...

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...

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The action required to sustain...

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

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The desire not to be anything ...

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

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Independence is the recognitio...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

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Never ask people about your wo...

Never ask people about your work.

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I never found beauty in longin...

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

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Every form of happiness if one...

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

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I think, therefore I'll think....

I think, therefore I'll think.

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Devotion to the truth is the h...

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

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Joy is the goal of existence, ...

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

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I do not think that tragedy is...

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

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