"I love the rain more than anything."
"I know I want to be the rain."
"You're the rain, Dante."
You're the rain, you're the dessert and you're the eraser that's making the word "loneliness" disappear, Dante.
The sixty pages that are John Galt’s radio script took Rand nearly two years to write. In a tone of supremely confident authority, and with seemingly endless repetitive detail, it lays out her logical elaborations from her rendering of the philosophy of Aristotle, through the supreme value of reason, to the morality of individualism and the superiority of capitalism. The lessons for the student/reader are: reason is superior to mysticism/religion, egoism is a truer morality than altruism, and individualism leads upward and forward via capitalism, while collectivism leads down and back to socialist barbarism. When her editor at Random House, Bennett Cerf, asked her to cut the speech, she notoriously replied, “Would you cut the Bible?
Sayfa 114
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
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If we’re very lucky, the universe send us the people we need to survive
Batı 'nın İslam dinine gösterdiği sağlıksız tutum, sık sık kendini şizofrenik bir tepki olarak göstermektedir. Kutsal Roma İmparatoru il. Frederick, İslam dininden tam anlamıyla korkuyordu ve ana vatanı olan Sicilya' daki Müslümanları sistematik bir şekilde öldürüyor ya da sınır dışı ediyordu. Yakın Doğu' daki Hıristiyanlar
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"I love swimming."
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a little while. And then he said, "I love swimming-and you."
I didn't say anything.
"Swimming and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most."
"How many new words a day?"
"You know, a few. I like the old words better. They're like old friends."
She smiled at me. "Dante's not the only one who missed you."
It was the most beautiful thing an adult who wasn't my mom or dad had ever said to me. And I knew that there was something about me that Mrs. Quintana saw and loved. And even though I felt was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Not that she meant it to be a weight. But love was always something heavy for me. Something had to carry.
I think I upset him by bringing up my brother: I don't want to upset him, but I do. I always upset him. And other people too. I guess that's what I do. And I upset you too. I know that. And I'm sorry. I'm doing the best I can, okay? So if I don't write as many letters as you do, don't be upset. I'm not doing it to upset you, okay? This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor:
I think I'll go sit in my truck and think about that.
"We have to know the exact distance," he said.
"Why?"
"Because when you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing."
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