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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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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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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser stan...more

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People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reas...more

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of hi...more

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...more

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You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to ne...more

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She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus b...more

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The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.

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...one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification.