Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Ayn Rand

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The best is a matter of standards

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I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés truth doubt oppression challenge subversion minority-opinion

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Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés progress happiness fulfillment growth movement innovation forward

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how did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled?"
"By holding on to just one rule."
"Which?"
"To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind.

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He wondered whether he really liked his mother. But she was his mother and this fact was recognized by everybody as meaning automatically that he loved her, and so he took for granted that whatever he felt for her was love. He did not know whether there was any reason why he should respect her judgment. She was his mother; this was supposed to take the place of reasons.

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Все зависит от знакомства с теми, от кого все зависит. Осталось только выяснить, от кого именно все зависит.

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Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others.

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Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.”
--Atlas Shrugged

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To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.

--Atlas Shrugged

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