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"21 Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings

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Born. February 2, 1905. Died. March 6, 1982 | Writer | Philosopher |

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

The more You learn Know nothing
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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Know You Learn Thing
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Stop Question Who Let
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness Purpose Pain
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Teach Suffer Enjoy Live
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Root Evil Think Money
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Control Understand Crop Domestic
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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.

Image Power Choice Build
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Reward Price Virtue Another
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property

Body Result Right Exist
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Being Beyond Power Only
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

State Value Which Proceed
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You Think Your Will
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Success Best Opportunity The
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

You Walk People Look
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Dream Heaven Greatness Earth
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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Came here Not recognize Anyone's right My life
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The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

The secrets This earth All men Seek them
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Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

Worry A waste Emotional reserve
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Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

Don't think Believe Your heart Your brain
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Free society Are irrational Is free
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Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings