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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #consciousness #proceeds #state #values

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieve #doing #know #need #real

Evil requires the sanction of the victim. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#requires #sanction #victim

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#everybody #evident #explain #glaringly #had

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#being #beyond #conceive #definition #god

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individual rights #law #means #moral #moral law

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off. ↗

— Sally Rand

#day #haven #i #off #out

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bet #dancing #grandmother #grandmothers #heaven