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I will stop the motor of the world.
John Galt / Novelist
Motor
World
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To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
John Galt / Novelist
Felt
Mystery
Policy
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A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
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Body
Doe
Soul
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I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.
John Galt / Novelist
Evil
Mean
Surrender
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Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
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All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.
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Men
Mind
Wealth
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In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
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Men
Creatures
London
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It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.
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Knows
Suffering
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
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Men
Mind
Survival
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A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
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Men
Doe
Giving
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Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
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Men
Gains
Mean
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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
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Matter
Mind
Modest
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The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
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Feet
Principles
Self
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As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.
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Emotion
Wealth
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Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
John Galt / Novelist
Men
Goal
Mind
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An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
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Gains
Mind
Reality
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Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
John Galt / Novelist
Government
Abuse
Law
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Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.
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Men
Eden
Garden
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There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.
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Emotion
Facts
Reality
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Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
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Men
Feelings
Self
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I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Men
Fans
Phrases
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If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.
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Degrees
Evil
Mind
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The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.
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Choices
Dedication
Two
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I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force.
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Men
Thinking
Wish
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Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.
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Fighting
Humility
Mean
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If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?
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Desire
Giving
Moral
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.
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Men
Survival
Thinking
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Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.
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Men
Character
Pride
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The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”
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Dream
Self Esteem
Thinking
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Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.
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Men
Character
Justice
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
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Men
Animal
Suicidal
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From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.
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Character
Scotland
Two
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