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He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not ...more

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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

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Who is John Galt?

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the res...more

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Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step...more

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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewar...more

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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my val...more

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That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he...more

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They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the...more

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So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there...more

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The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of exis...more

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Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state —ind...more

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Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

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I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

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He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to ...more