The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
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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.Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
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All your life, you have heard yourself denounced not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements. You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest.
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