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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
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Quotes from The Fountainhead

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls.

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead
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"There are things that must be destroyed--or they'll destroy us."
--Ellsworth Toohey, The Fountainhead.

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead
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"Men differ in their virtues, if any, but they are alike in their vices."
--Gail Wynand, The Fountainhead.

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead
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A man braver than his brothers insults them by implication.  Let us aspire to no virtue which cannot be shared
--Ellsworth Toohey, The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead, Page: 312
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Dominique as Gail looks at her "… there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead, Page: 509
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Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles?  Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead.  The touch of thought…

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: The Fountainhead, Page: 668
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