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A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason about it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.
Ayn Rand
- Life
- 1905-1982
- Occupations
- playwright, philosopher, novelist
- Notable works
- Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living
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He loved the wheel of a car as he loved his desk in the office of the Banner: both gave him the same sense of a dangerous monster let loose under the expert direction of his fingers.
Ayn Rand
He loved the wheel of a car as he loved his desk in the office of the : both gave him the same sense of a dangerous monster let loose under the expert direction of his fingers.
Ayn Rand
One did not stress total ignorance of a subject if one were in total ignorance of it.
Ayn Rand
There was a time when you wouldn’t have admitted that there was anything you couldn’t get.
Ayn Rand
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving or to move without aim?
Ayn Rand
We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Ayn Rand