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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
  The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe....
• It had to be said: the world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrifice.
  -- Howard Roark, in Ayn Rand's _The Fountainhead_...
• To me, there is only one form of human depravity - the man without a purpose. -- Ayn Rand
• One evening he spoke. Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her, he allowed his soul to be heard.
  My darling, anything you wish, anything I am, anything I can ever be....
• I swear -- by my life and my love for it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
  -- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• I am, therefore I'll think. -- John Galt (Ayn Rand)
• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. -- Ayn Rand
• Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
  -- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• If all philosophers were required to present their ideas in novel
  to dramatize the exact meaning and consequences of their philosophies in human life, there would be far fewer philosophers -- and far better ones....