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«Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
class, classes, middle class, The Middle Class, upper, uppers, upper class
«What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
demanding, discrimination, exercising, problem solving, solving
«There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
A level, conformist, conformists, cowardice, fashionable, lower
«A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.»
«That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.»
«Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.»
«Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
belief system, capitalist, comforts, considerations, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, materialistic, motivated, primarily, vulgar
«The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged»
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
convincing, destroying, devotes, feathers, flying start, futile, hunt, Hunt for, plucking, pushing, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, species, strident, survival, The Birds, the hunt, The Wings, tool, To Fly, train, train of thought, young bird
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