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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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"Do not let your fire become out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Practise non let the hero in your soul perish in solitary frustration for the life y'all deserved and accept never been able to accomplish. The world you desire can exist won. Information technology exists.. information technology is real.. information technology is possible.. it's yours."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"If you don't know, the thing to do is non to get scared, but to learn."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a prevarication is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from and then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to exist faked…The human who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"I swear by my life and my love of information technology that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor enquire some other man to live for mine."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the globe was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or difficult the struggle."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if y'all saw that he stood, claret running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but yet trying to concur the world aloft with the last of his force, and the greater his effort the heavier the earth bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"A human's sexual choice is the issue and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He volition e'er be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the adult female whose give up permits him to feel a sense of self-esteem. The human who is proudly sure of his ain value, will want the highest type of adult female he can notice, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"If you lot tell a cute woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than than a fact and it has cost you nothing. Only if y'all tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the swell homage of corrupting the concept of dazzler. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it'southward a payment, non a gift. But to dear her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To dear her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of honey, considering y'all cede your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Never recollect of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"The homo who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an accented, a speck of grit is an absolute and then is a human life. Whether y'all live or die is an accented. Whether yous accept a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's breadbasket, is an absolute.

In that location are ii sides to every outcome: one side is correct and the other is wrong, but the heart is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in society to pretend that no selection or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to greenbacks in on the blood of the innocent or to clamber on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice past condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In whatever compromise between food and poison, it is only death that tin win. In any compromise between good and evil, information technology is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the skillful to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Let me requite y'all a tip on a inkling to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named information technology were: This is not the globe I expected."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand even so. It must grow or perish."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Alive and deed within the limit of your noesis and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That judgement is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"There is no such thing equally a lousy chore - only lousy men who don't care to do it."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An fault of cognition is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. Only a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an activeness yous know to exist evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is non a moral charge against you; but that which you reject to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every assart for errors of knowledge; do non forgive or have whatsoever break of morality."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, just to exist achieved, and the human action of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment'due south torture."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"If 1's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Money is only a tool. It volition take you wherever you lot wish, but it will not supersede you as the commuter."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Do you lot know the authentication of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone'due south work bear witness greater than their own - they have no clue of the loneliness that comes when you reach the elevation. The loneliness for an equal - for a heed to respect and an achievement to adore. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that y'all take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to run across a flicker of talent anywhere amongst them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a globe where all men accept get their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the human of achievement would not be able to bear. They take no fashion of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? no, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and applause from men whom you don't respect? Have you e'er felt the longing for someone y'all could admire? For something, not to look down at, but upwardly to?"
"I've felt it all my life," she said."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Productiveness is your credence of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the procedure by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a abiding procedure of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical class, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a bare who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is every bit wide as your mind, that nothing more than is possible to you and null less is human--that to cheat your fashion into a job bigger than your mind tin can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle downwards into a job that requires less than your listen'due south full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of movement: decay--that your piece of work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a automobile, but your heed is its driver, and yous must bulldoze as far as your listen will accept you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any bedrock to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the human being who lets a leader prescribe his class is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the human being who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick upward--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you lot, that any value you might find outside your piece of work, any other loyalty or beloved, tin be only travelers yous choose to share your journeying and must be travelers going on their own power in the aforementioned direction."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"It is non death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. "
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"In this world, either you're virtuous or you savor yourself. Not both, lady, non both."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live information technology."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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