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AYN RAND
American writer
(1905 - 1982)
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A house can have integrity, just like a person.
      - [Integrity]

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
      - [Civilization]

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
      - [Freedom]

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
      - [Thinking]

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
      - [Happiness]

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
      - [Ugliness]

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.
      - [Error]

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
      - [Money]

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
      - [Law]

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
      - [Life]

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight.
      - [Force]

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
      - [Class]

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
      - [Reality]

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
      - [Wealth]

It is a sin to write this.
      - Anthem [Books (First Lines)]

"Who is John Galt?"
      - Atlas Shrugged [Books (First Lines)]

Howard Roark laughed.
  He stood naked at the edge of a cliff.
      - The Fountainhead [Books (First Lines)]

Petrograd smelt of carbolic acid.
      - We the Living [Books (First Lines)]

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