The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.


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We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.
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Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the...
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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permit...
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He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea...
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"Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is th...
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An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims...
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...
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If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa...
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We a...
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All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean th...
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If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr...
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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru...
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif...
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Beauty is a sense of harmony.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
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Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...
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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th...
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When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ...
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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s...
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If this is vise I want no virtue.

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