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“Sadly, life has taught me that attempting to determine our future is something of a lottery. We can try, we should always try, but there are no guarantees.”
― John Nicholl, When Evil Calls Your Name

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”
― Ayn Rand

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Never ask people about your work.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I am. I think. I will.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”
― Ayn Rand

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
― Ayn Rand

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
― Ayn Rand

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
― Ayn Rand

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
― Ayn Rand

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
― Ayn Rand

“I am, therefore I'll think.”
― Ayn Rand

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
― Ayn Rand

“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.”
― Ayn Rand

“My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand

“Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?

-The man without purpose.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.”
― Jeff Strand, Pressure

“spats usually started as statements and accusations but quickly descended into a kind of barking. Variations of sounds that grated on the bone structures in my cranium, continually weakening it and rendering it less impervious to diseases and madness. The”
― J.S. Drangsholt, The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter

“Dune always said it’s because any serious journalism is subject to severe censorship.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Secondborn