So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

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About Ayn Rand

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Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( ), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.

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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

The upper classes are… a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

—Helen Rowland

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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

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