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Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.
– Ayn Rand

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  2. A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom. – Ayn Rand
  3. And, after all, you’ve got to live.--œNot that way,- said Roark. – Ayn Rand
  4. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. – Ayn Rand
  5. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. – Ayn Rand
  6. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  7. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
  8. 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
  9. What is grace? I’m not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella. – Tom Junod
  10. 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
  11. My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. – Myron Uhlberg
  12. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  13. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. – Ayn Rand
  14. To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. – Ayn Rand
  15. The source of work? Man’s mind…man’s reasoning mind. – Ayn Rand
  16. It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man–almost rarer–who is great enough to see greatness and say so. – Ayn Rand
  17. All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room. – Paul Auster
  18. Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. – Ayn Rand
  19. Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
  20. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. – Ayn Rand
  21. …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand
  22. You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
  23. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  24. …man’s life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey… – Ayn Rand
  25. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. – Ayn Rand
  26. ..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
  27. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. – Ayn Rand
  28. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. – Ayn Rand
  29. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  30. No guest rooms.- I shake my head resolutely. -œI want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. – Lauren Oliver
  31. You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
  32. I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad. – Dominic Riccitello
  33. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you -“ you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand
  34. My real soul…? It’s real only when it’s independent… – Ayn Rand
  35. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. – Ayn Rand
  36. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  37. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. – Ayn Rand
  38. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually? – Ayn Rand
  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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