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Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice


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AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l...
AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...
AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...
AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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