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• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
• Who is John Galt? An explorer, the greatest explorer that ever lived.
  The man who found the fountain of youth.John Galt spent years looking for it....
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• Who is John Galt? John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind.
  After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire -- until the day when men withdraw their vultures....
• Who is John Galt? Do you know the legend of Atlantis?
  ... The Isles of the Blessed ... Atlantis was a place where hero spirits lived in a happiness unknown to the rest of the world....
• If a man runs after money - that man is money-crazy.
  If a man keeps the money he earns - he is a capitalist....
• The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.
  He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner....
• His mind is on vacation but his mouth is working overtime.
• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
  His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not....