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Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
– Ayn Rand

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  3. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. – Ayn Rand
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  6. Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why? – Daniel Marques
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  8. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
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  15. A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom. – Ayn Rand
  16. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you -“ you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand
  17. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
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  23. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  24. Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted. – Ayn Rand
  25. What’s wealth but the means of expanding one’s life? There’s two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster. – Ayn Rand
  26. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
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  28. A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. – Ayn Rand
  29. ..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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  33. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. – Ayn Rand
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  36. And, after all, you’ve got to live.--œNot that way,- said Roark. – Ayn Rand
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  39. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand
  40. The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. – Ayn Rand

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