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| So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? | | Money | |
| Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. | | Uncategorized | |
| That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else. | | Love; Passion; Respect | |
| That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve | | Uncategorized | |
| The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort | | Uncategorized | |
| The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged | | Uncategorized | |
| The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. | | Uncategorized | |
| The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. | | Uncategorized | |
| The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. | | Leadership | |
| 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. | | Government; Law and lawyers; Power | |
| The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. | | Uncategorized | |
| The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. | | Uncategorized | |
| The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed | | Law and lawyers | |
| The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. | | Uncategorized | |
| The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. | | Uncategorized | |
| The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. | | Truth | |
| The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. | | Uncategorized | |
| The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life | | Uncategorized | |
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