Ayn Rand
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We have time, there's no big rush.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
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