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Ayn Rand
“Victor Hugo: “If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand
“There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that enemies could murder him at any moment and had to defend himself as best as he could. But there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand
“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Lawrence M. Krauss
“Reality doesn’t owe us comfort.”
Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing

Ayn Rand
“If so, there are—again—two possible attitudes to take. We can say that these twelve were great benefactors, that we are all fed by the overflow of the magnificent wealth of their spirit, and that we are glad to accept it in gratitude and brotherhood. Or, we can say that by the splendor of their achievement which we can neither equal nor keep, these twelve have shown us what we are, that we do not want the free gifts of their grandeur, that a cave by an oozing swamp and a fire of sticks rubbed together are preferable to skyscrapers and neon lights—if the cave and the sticks are the limit of our own creative capacities. Of the two attitudes, Dominique, which would you call the truly humanitarian one? Because, you see, I’m a humanitarian.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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