Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.


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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permit...
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He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea...
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"Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is th...
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An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims...
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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 ...
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If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa...
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We a...
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All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean th...
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If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr...
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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru...
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif...
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Beauty is a sense of harmony.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
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Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...
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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th...
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When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ...
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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s...
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If this is vise I want no virtue.

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I know what happiness is possible to me ...
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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be...
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He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ...
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l...
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...
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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...
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He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
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The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
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