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Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
MARK MCKINNON My company believes in hiring people based on merit.
AZIM PREMJI The rand, as a commodity-based currency, should benefit from the surge in precious metals' prices as...
MONALE RATSOMA I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
DONALD TRUMP I'm not here based on being opposed or in favor of the petition.
LAUREL COX For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the...
ELLE MACPHERSON If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder wit...
TED CRUZ Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Int...
CHIP CONLEY I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign pol...
TED CRUZ Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - b...
NANCY GIBBS America is a young country with an old mentality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We have some discretionary funds based on need or merit. We thought the need for this program was th...
JAN BAILEY My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it...
GARY JOHNSON Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
CHRIS SQUIRE Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolute...
ALAN GREENSPAN Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, y...
DADA BHAGWAN The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds ...
ABERJHANI I'm trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE Most people are led to believe that success is based on achievement and the accumulation of material...
LORRIN L. LEE My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America,
ROGER DONALDSON The new game celebrates the spirit of the World Cup itself as opposed to our other FIFA titles that ...
JOE NICKOLLS Prepare for success and take bold action, as opposed to letting fear steal your dreams!
JOHN DI LEMME I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER as part of a bipartisan, broad-based effort. Obviously, it's clear that the attorney general is not ...
CARLA BLANTON There's a broad-based recovery in this market after Monday's dip in line with American markets and h...
FERDI HEYNEKE America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
AZAR NAFISI We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be be...
BILL ALLEN Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
IRIS CHANG I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is tryi...
JOHN MCCAIN All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war
KENNETH CLARK The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the...
SCOTT WALKER If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA The success or failure of the euthanasia movement is based on the classification of feeding tubes as...
BOBBY SCHINDLER There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting r...
BOB FELLER Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
TUCKER MAX We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our re...
PETER MILLER He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael a...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national se...
JIM GARRISON America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast foo...
DAVID CHANG Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arroga...
GARRY TRUDEAU When we found out that Paul would be down in Mexico City to run the Busch car it was hard to pass up...
DENNIS BAINBRIDGE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Understanding the danger of combining religion and politics, our founding fathers wisely created a p...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collecti...
JACQUES DELORS The business must be based on the success of our football team,
BRIAN QUINN I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperame...
ANTHONY KENNEDY That was something. As opposed to nothing.
KEVIN AYERS The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real p...
RICHARD LAMM Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping thin...
KURT VONNEGUT We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.
ANGELA MERKEL Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country.
BOB MCCANN We recognize this is an emotional issue in Florida, and in other parts of the country there are peop...
BOB WILLIAMS I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w...
JEFF LEMIRE It would have been preferable to carry it out in the country itself, inside America. He was in agree...
AHMED RESSAM There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
HEATHER MILLS We've got to win in the heartland of America, ... Democrats are more liberal than the country as a w...
BRUCE REED Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire...
SCOTT WALKER From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of building...
HARRY SEIDLER Our success is based on the collective whole. Our depth is very strong.
BARB GIBSON The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic...
COLIN POWELL Biotechnology is creating a new industrial revolution based on biology instead of petroleum. As biot...
BRENT ERICKSON My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitima...
DAN FOGELBERG Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free ...
AHMED ZEWAIL We haven't been served with this lawsuit as of yet, but based on the description of the allegations ...
BOB BERG I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
CAMERON CROWE We wanted the album to be able to stand on its own as a whole, as opposed to just being a collection...
ANDY PARKER We recognize this is an emotional issue in Florida, and in other parts of the country there are peop...
BOB WILLIAMS The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resi...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN You have to permit based on the reserves you have, but this is elephant country,
TIM ARNOLD There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, ...
ROBERT JORDAN There's no science to this. The whole concept of having hundreds of benchmarks in place that are not...
BRIAN POSTL Success is a huge topic that is more so based on luck.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Looking at past data and previous mergers, typically you do find an increase in customer satisfactio...
KIRK PARSONS Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answ...
JIM WALLIS The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, Americ...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a pl...
JEFFREY FRY America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul to...
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Paul really loved the Beatles. If he'd loved the Rolling Stones it would have been different. The Be...
JOHN CLIFFORTH It was much harder to watch as opposed to playing in the game. I was kind of going back and forth.
KOBE BRYANT Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
ROBERT MUGABE I've moved on, grown and learned in the years since then, and am designing interfaces that make the ...
JEFF RASKIN The focus is on their remaining abilities as opposed to their disabilities.
JULIE EVERS I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...
GEORGE W. BUSH There is a clear cleavage between where Paul Martin wants to take the country and where Stephen Harp...
AMY BUTCHER We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have...
MARCO RUBIO one bit how union jobs are going to leave America based on a trade relationship with China.
JESSE VENTURA Based on information received from inside the country, the Iranian regime has started an extensive s...
ALIREZA JAFARZADEH We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.
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RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in ...
RAND PAUL I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our ...
RAND PAUL Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
RAND PAUL Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's ...
RAND PAUL Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
PAUL RAND In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they loo...
PAUL RAND I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
RAND PAUL The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depend...
PAUL RAND Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
RAND PAUL Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: ta...
PAUL RAND Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without subst...
PAUL RAND Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arr...
PAUL RAND If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don&...
PAUL RAND There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts...
PAUL RAND Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
PAUL RAND Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two...
PAUL RAND Design is everything. Everything!
PAUL RAND Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymme...
PAUL RAND The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
PAUL RAND I was too practical to want to be a painter.
PAUL RAND If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy t...
PAUL RAND Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer'...
PAUL RAND Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that frag...
PAUL RAND I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of ...
PAUL RAND Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in har...
PAUL RAND A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written ...
PAUL RAND You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
PAUL RAND I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity...
PAUL RAND I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republi...
RAND PAUL It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
RAND PAUL Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and a...
RAND PAUL I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...
RAND PAUL No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right...
RAND PAUL I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
RAND PAUL And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...
RAND PAUL Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but eve...
RAND PAUL If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
RAND PAUL America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
RAND PAUL To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and me...
PAUL RAND Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or...
PAUL RAND I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you ...
RAND PAUL Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent eleme...
PAUL RAND I don't plan on being bashful.
RAND PAUL I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've in...
RAND PAUL The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and ...
RAND PAUL Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
PAUL RAND You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and tha...
RAND PAUL We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
RAND PAUL The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, ...
RAND PAUL The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a ...
RAND PAUL The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
RAND PAUL I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rig...
RAND PAUL The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led t...
RAND PAUL The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of c...
RAND PAUL The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get thi...
RAND PAUL You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
PAUL RAND We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
RAND PAUL I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound me...
RAND PAUL Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
RAND PAUL Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
PAUL RAND The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. J...
RAND PAUL I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less t...
RAND PAUL Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in...
RAND PAUL The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specificall...
RAND PAUL As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w...
RAND PAUL My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating pro...
RAND PAUL Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigaret...
RAND PAUL I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who ...
RAND PAUL There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate,...
RAND PAUL As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, b...
RAND PAUL If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sendi...
RAND PAUL Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservative...
RAND PAUL William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going throug...
RAND PAUL A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-fil...
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PAUL RAND Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's jo...
PAUL RAND The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, b...
RAND PAUL I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictat...
RAND PAUL I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
RAND PAUL Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that fo...
RAND PAUL Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have conclud...
RAND PAUL What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I...
RAND PAUL I stand firm that I believe the numbers speak for themselves in terms of all that we've done,
PAUL RAND The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
RAND PAUL I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We...
RAND PAUL In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone record...
RAND PAUL Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
RAND PAUL Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably oppos...
RAND PAUL The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. ...
RAND PAUL The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes,...
RAND PAUL Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. Hig...
RAND PAUL I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reaso...
RAND PAUL I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do somethin...
RAND PAUL Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Pa...
RAND PAUL My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
RAND PAUL Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble fo...
PAUL RAND I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the Americ...
RAND PAUL What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's sti...
RAND PAUL Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to...
RAND PAUL I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can ...
RAND PAUL The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs ...
RAND PAUL Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the p...
RAND PAUL The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
RAND PAUL I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same ...
RAND PAUL As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamaca...
RAND PAUL Everything is design. Everything!
PAUL RAND I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approache...
RAND PAUL What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
RAND PAUL You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAUL You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're ...
RAND PAUL What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig...
RAND PAUL If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of o...
RAND PAUL I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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RAND PAUL You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats ...
RAND PAUL A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
RAND PAUL I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republican...
RAND PAUL Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductib...
RAND PAUL All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
RAND PAUL I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone record...
RAND PAUL The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our...
RAND PAUL I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of libert...
RAND PAUL The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusias...
PAUL RAND In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressma...
RAND PAUL 92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,
family member, or som...
PAUL M. RAND Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public...
AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND I'm the original.
SALLY RAND When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
SALLY RAND I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
SALLY RAND They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a canno...
SALLY RAND What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmot...
SALLY RAND If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
SALLY RAND I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
SALLY RAND You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be ...
RAND BEERS Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document tha...
RAND BEERS I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese...
RAND BEERS Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageabl...
RAND BEERS The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associa...
RAND BEERS We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been d...
RAND BEERS The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
AYN RAND Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...
AYN RAND To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
AYN RAND Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse...
AYN RAND Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of ...
AYN RAND Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
AYN RAND I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises....
AYN RAND He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If y...
AYN RAND Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
AYN RAND To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
AYN RAND America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...
AYN RAND Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
AYN RAND Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ...
AYN RAND There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...
AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
AYN RAND People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac...
AYN RAND ...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by ot...
AYN RAND Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...
AYN RAND Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i...
AYN RAND Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t...
AYN RAND Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...
AYN RAND Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...
AYN RAND Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...
AYN RAND Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...
AYN RAND People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
AYN RAND She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
AYN RAND I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
AYN RAND Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...
AYN RAND Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RAND I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...
AYN RAND If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
AYN RAND