Inspirational
snippets for your consideration courtesy
of the lady that got it right, Ayn Rand
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EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL
"No matter how hard the struggle he had lived through in the past, he had
never reached the ultimate ugliness of abandoning the will to act. In moments of
suffering, he had never let pain win its one permanent victory: he had never
allowed it to make him lose the desire for joy."
from ATLAS SHRUGGED
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Ayn Rand (instant bio) |
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LIVE, JUST LIVE FOR LIFE
"For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed
that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your
neighbors-- between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the
sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice
for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life
belongs to you and that the good is to live it."
from ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand |
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IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD
"Productive work is the road of man's unlimited achievement and calls upon
the highest attributes of his character: his creative ability, his
ambitiousness, his self-assertiveness, his refusal to bear uncontested disasters,
his dedication to the goal of reshaping the earth in the image of his values."
from THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by Ayn Rand |
WHAT'S
IN IT FOR ME? "Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--
nor a social convention -- nor a dispensable, subjective luxury.... Ethics
is an objective necessity of man's survival-- not by the grace of
the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but by the grace
of reality and the nature of life."
from THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS
by Ayn Rand
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AYN
RAND [yn rand]
A Russian-born American writer who originated a
philosophy known as Objectivism, Ayn Rand, born February 2, 1905, died March 6,
1982, advocated capitalism in economics and individualism in ethics. Two
novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), contain
the heart of her philosophy: that rational self-interest should be the basis of
action and that self-fulfillment is an individual's moral responsibility, with
productive achievement the noblest activity. She saw altruism as both a
personal and a political weakness. BACK
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