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Let me give you a tip on a clu...

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

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My philosophy, in essence, is ...

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

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If a drought strikes them, ani...

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

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I am not the means to any end ...

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

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That love is reverence, and wo...

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it Ђ' the total passion for the total height Ђ' you're incapable of anything less.

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A spirit, too, needs fuel. It ...

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

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For the first time since her r...

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

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John Galt is Prometheus who ch...

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chainsЂ'and he withdrew his fireЂ'until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

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Never think of pain or danger ...

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

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'You were not born to be a se...

'You were not born to be a second-hander.' Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in 'The Fountainhead'

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It does not matter that only a...

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or 'The Fountainhead' that they will betray: it is their own souls.

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There is no difference between...

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

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When you see that trading is d...

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

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One of the methods used by sta...

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.

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Individual rights are not subj...

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

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The end does not justify the m...

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

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A society that robs an individ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

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The government's only proper j...

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

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Socialism is the doctrine that...

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

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The difference between a welfa...

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

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