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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
Born: Feb 2, 1905
Died: Mar 6, 1982
Government Man Money Rights Think You
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand
Love Character You Man Love Is Joy Reward Values Earn Virtues Moral One-Man Price Emotional He Qualities Another Greatest Greatest Reward Person Achieved Paid Your Expression Receives
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand
Rights Law Matter Morality Individual Forbidden Permitted Mob Actions Thing Numbers
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand
Future Class Nation Past Classes Upper Middle Middle Class
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayn Rand
You Yourself Live Enjoy Morality Purpose Die Teach Suffer
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand
Waiting Yourself Our Earth Ours Dream Greatness Heaven Whether Ask Us Should Now Graves Here
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
Happiness Achievement Values State Proceeds Which Consciousness
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand
Man Wealth Think Capacity Product
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand
Death Hope Whatever Hell Go Die Heaven
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand
You Money Stupidity Men Weakness Demands Talent Sell Your Reason
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Ayn Rand
Reality Mind Thinking Abdicate Oneself Maintain Arrive Error Contradiction Confess Realm
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand
Man World Power Own Every He Builds His Escape Choice Choose Image Every Man Necessity
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. Ayn Rand
Man Leader Wreck Course Heap His Scrap Being Who Lets Prescribe
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. Ayn Rand
Needs Culture Ethics Every Rational New Western Western Culture Aspect Rebirth Code
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Ayn Rand
Evil Victim Sanction Requires
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. Ayn Rand
God Faith Man Power Definition Only He Conceive Beyond Being Whose
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand
Cowardice Than Conformist Lower Fashionable Level
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Ayn Rand
Life Death Equivalent Achieving Avoiding
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. Ayn Rand
Worth Achieve Action Possibility Goal Achieving Which Desire
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