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Ayn Rand

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

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"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."
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"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor-by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence-and every achievement is an expression of it."
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"No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea."
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"Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification."
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"Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed."
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"Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious."
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"If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence-then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love."
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"She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!"
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"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."
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"There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany)."
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