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Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter

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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
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The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
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There can be no compromise on moral principles.
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A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
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Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.
– Ayn Rand

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Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
– Ayn Rand

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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
– Ayn Rand

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Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.
– Ayn Rand

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The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
– Ayn Rand

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Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
– Ayn Rand

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The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
– Ayn Rand

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But you see, the measure of hell you’re able to endure is the measure of your love.
– Ayn Rand

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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
– Ayn Rand

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Never ask people about your work.
– Ayn Rand

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Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
– Ayn Rand

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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
– Ayn Rand

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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.
– Ayn Rand

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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
– Ayn Rand

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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
– Ayn Rand

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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
– Ayn Rand

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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
– Ayn Rand

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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
– Ayn Rand

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
– Ayn Rand

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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
– Ayn Rand

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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
– Ayn Rand

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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
– Ayn Rand

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
– Ayn Rand

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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
– Ayn Rand

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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
– Ayn Rand

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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
– Ayn Rand

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
– Ayn Rand

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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand

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A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
– Ayn Rand

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.
– Ayn Rand

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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious.
– Ayn Rand

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Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont.
– Ayn Rand

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Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
– Ayn Rand

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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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