I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse.... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.
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Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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