Ayn Rand Quotes and Sayings(5)

“Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

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“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."  {WMail Issue #27}
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday ... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
  {WMail Issue #29}

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"There's nothing of any importance except how well you do your work."
('Atlas Shrugged' 1957) {WMail Issue #33}
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
('Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal' 1966) {WMail Issue #34}
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."  ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957) {WMail Issues #35 & #62}
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"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."  {WMail Issue #36}
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"Reason, the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by the senses, is man's basic tool of survival."  {WMail Issue #45}
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"A rational man is guided by his thinking – by a process of Reason – not by his feelings and desires."  {WMail Issue #45}
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"Reason is man's basic means of survival."  {WMail Issue #45}
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"Reason is a faculty that man has to exercise by choice."  {WMail Issue #45}
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"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."  {WMail Issue #48} 

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“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 

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“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”
― 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, Anthem

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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
― 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, Atlas Shrugged

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