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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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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man'...more

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

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the her...more

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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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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by...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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Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry t...more

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Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature t...more

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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough crimina...more

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Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on t...more

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I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend o...more

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There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser’s hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. ’He that loveth his lif...more