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Look,” said Roark evenly, and pointed at the window. “Can you see the campus and the town? Do you see how many men are walking and living down there? Well, I don’t give a damn what any or all of them think about architecture—or about anything else, for that matter. Why should I consider what their grandfathers thought of it?


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AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
AYN RAND Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif...
AYN RAND Beauty is a sense of harmony.
AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...
AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th...
AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ...
AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s...
AYN RAND If this is vise I want no virtue.

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I know what happiness is possible to me ...
AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be...
AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ...
AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l...
AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...
AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...
AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
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