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Title: ~ Ayn Rand Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:50:24 AM
Ayn Rand Quotes

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A Russian-American novelist, philosopher,playwright, and screenwriter.
Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher,playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand migrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. She first achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her magnum opus, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged.

Here are some famous quotes by Ayn Rand.

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What do you know and how do you know it?
Title: Re: ~ Ayn Rand Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:50:57 AM
God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:51:26 AM
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:51:56 AM
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:52:36 AM
The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:53:09 AM
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:53:38 AM
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:54:09 AM
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:54:40 AM
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:55:09 AM
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:55:39 AM
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:56:09 AM
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:56:41 AM
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:57:11 AM
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:57:43 AM
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:58:16 AM
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:58:47 AM
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:59:20 AM
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 10:59:53 AM
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality then there is no greater nobler more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge which is faith is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 11:00:27 AM
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself anything goes.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2013, 11:01:08 AM
What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.