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Quotes from Atlas Shrugged

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”

“Money will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

“It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.”

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”

“There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.”