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She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.

If I can't, then that would make it an absolute and you said there aren't any absolutes." "That's different." "How is it different?" "It's the government." "You mean, there aren't any absolutes except the government?" "I mean, if they say it's important, then it is.

Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.

The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.

Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

No man can predict the time when others will choose to return to reason.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially.

Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who has earned the thing you didn't fight for.... I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.

that is the psychology of a murderer who's committed the perfect crime and then confesses because he can't bear the idea that nobody knows it's a perfect crime.

men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy—so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.

Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama!" Keyes would proclaim, deliberately mispronouncing my name every time. I beat him by more than forty points—the biggest margin for a Senate race in the state's history.

The will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations…is meaningless.