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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
– Ayn Rand

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  3. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. – Ayn Rand
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  8. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil? – Ayn Rand
  9. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. – Ayn Rand
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  34. ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all. – Ayn Rand
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