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• Man's ego is the fountainhead of the human achievement. -- 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....
• If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who
  doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary....
• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.
  You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand...
• Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
  If a drought strikes them, animals perish -- man builds irrigation canal...
• 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
• Mrs. Simpson, I don't like to toot my own horn, but we're the only day-care in town that is not currently under investigation by the state -- Ms.
  Sinclair, administrator of the Ayn Rand School for Tots, "A Streetcar Named Marge...