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Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is best known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead, helped her achieve fame but she is best known for her final fiction publication the novel Atlas Shrugged. In it she advocates the role of the mind in human existence and expresses her core concepts of human achievement.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me? - Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. - Ayn Rand

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. - Ayn Rand

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. - Ayn Rand

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. - Ayn Rand

One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor. - Ayn Rand

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. - Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. - Ayn Rand

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. - Ayn Rand

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. - Ayn Rand

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. - Ayn Rand

I am. I think. I will. - Ayn Rand

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. - Ayn Rand

It is my will that chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. - Ayn Rand

And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. - Ayn Rand

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you - except the things that count? And your most important thing is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. - Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - Ayn Rand

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. - Ayn Rand

Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities. - Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - Ayn Rand

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can’t stand still. It must grow or perish. - Ayn Rand

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” - Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). - Ayn Rand

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me? - Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. - Ayn Rand

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. - Ayn Rand

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. - Ayn Rand

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. - Ayn Rand

One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor. - Ayn Rand

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. - Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. - Ayn Rand

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. - Ayn Rand

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. - Ayn Rand

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. - Ayn Rand

I am. I think. I will. - Ayn Rand

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. - Ayn Rand

It is my will that chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. - Ayn Rand

And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. - Ayn Rand

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you - except the things that count? And your most important thing is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. - Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - Ayn Rand

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. - Ayn Rand

Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities. - Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - Ayn Rand

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can’t stand still. It must grow or perish. - Ayn Rand

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” - Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). - Ayn Rand

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