The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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More Quotes from Ayn Rand
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.
I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.
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It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
