I want to know that I've ...

I want to know that I\'ve accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn\'t all-for nothing.
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
 Ayn Rand

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
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If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.
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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. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
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