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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (/?a?n ?rænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, Russian: ?????? ??????????? ??????????; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead

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Most American men are repressors.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on ...

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there wa ...

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and en ...

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is wor ...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of p ...

“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.”

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave th ...