Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher known for her development of Objectivism and works like 'Atlas Shrugged'.

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Born
February 2, 1905
Died
March 6, 1982
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"She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart"

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"The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained."

Support Political Minorities
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"Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men."

Men Rights Principles
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"For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling."

Pain Feelings Alive
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"Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue."

Virtue
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"A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue."

Suicide Men Evil
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"and he said her name to fill the space of five years."

Years Names Space
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"Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't."

Wish Gone Compromise
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"The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."

Wind Coins Treasure
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"Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!"

Wise Three Granted
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"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."

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"Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy."

Fighting People Enemy
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"The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through."

Sky Black Silver
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"The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. 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 become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth."

Mother Children Passion
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"If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed."

Life Song Believe
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"Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt."

Kindness Eye Dark
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"It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root."

Fighting Roots Soul
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"A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist."

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