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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.

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What do you know and how do you know it?

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God forgives those who invent what they need.

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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

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The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.

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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future.

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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

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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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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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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.