Happiness
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is best known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which popularized her philosophy of Objectivism. Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1905, and died in New York City in 1982.Here are some additional details about her life and work:
* Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum to a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia.
* She fled Russia during the Russian Revolution and immigrated to the United States in 1926.
* She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.
* Her first novel, The Fountainhead, was published in 1943.
* Her second novel, Atlas Shrugged, was published in 1957.
* Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is based on the belief in individual rights, reason, and self-interest.
* Objectivism has been influential in libertarian and conservative circles.
* Rand's work has been controversial, and she has been criticized for her views on gender, race, and religion.
Despite the controversy, Rand remains a popular figure among libertarians and conservatives. Her work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
* Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum to a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia.
* She fled Russia during the Russian Revolution and immigrated to the United States in 1926.
* She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.
* Her first novel, The Fountainhead, was published in 1943.
* Her second novel, Atlas Shrugged, was published in 1957.
* Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is based on the belief in individual rights, reason, and self-interest.
* Objectivism has been influential in libertarian and conservative circles.
* Rand's work has been controversial, and she has been criticized for her views on gender, race, and religion.
Despite the controversy, Rand remains a popular figure among libertarians and conservatives. Her work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
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Love
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
Love
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
Life
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Inspirational
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He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
Life
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
Life
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Life
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
Education
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Inspirational
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Truth
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Life
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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