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About Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Ayn Rand, born Alice O'Connor, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing Objectivism, the philosophical system she named. Her work brought together storytelling and philosophy, and she became closely associated with a body of ideas that she presented as Objectivism. Her writing is known for combining fiction with arguments about reason, individualism, and the role of philosophy in life.
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- “We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”Ayn Rand
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Morality: more sayings
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Explore Forgiveness
- “Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.”Patience Johnson
- “[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself…”Stephen Levine
- “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”Woody Allen
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Books by Ayn Rand
Anthem
1995
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
1992
The Fountainhead
2004
We the living
2009
For the New Intellectual
1963