"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."

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"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."

Explore more quotes by Ayn Rand

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

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"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

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

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"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

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

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"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins."

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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."

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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

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"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman

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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napolean Hill, American Author

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"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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