I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.
("Atlas Shrugged")
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I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped ' to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
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