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Did you get your money by frau...

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

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Kill reverence and you've kill...

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

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Honest people are never touchy...

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted

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An honest man is one who knows...

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

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God help us, ma'am! Do you see...

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

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Thanksgiving is a typically Am...

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers' holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America's pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.

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The men who are not interested...

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them-from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.

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Indiscriminate tolerance and i...

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

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Do not open your mouth to tell...

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

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The greatest threat to mankind...

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

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Civilization does not have to ...

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

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Productiveness is your accepta...

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

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Morality pertains only to the ...

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

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Let us destroy, but don't let ...

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

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But I don't think of you. - Ho...

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

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In this world, either you're v...

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

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Volumes can be and have been w...

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

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If you don't know, the thing t...

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

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There are no contradictions. I...

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

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If it's worth doing, it's wort...

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

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