Man has the power to act as his own destroyer and that is he has acted through most of history.
("Atlas Shrugged")
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He stood motionless, not turning to the crowd, barely hearing the applause. He stood looking at the judges. There was no triumph in his face, no elation, only the still intensity of contemplating a vision with a bitter wonder that was almost fear. He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.Ayn Rand
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.
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