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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
About Author: US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)
Quotes:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values.
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.
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