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Just passing by," said Keating, "with an evening to kill and happened to think

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt

Entonces los que se odian a sí mismos y los que odian la vida, sólo conciben una única forma equivalente al amor: la destrucción. Lillian lo habia elegido por lo mejor de sus virtudes.

a man with an immense capacity for the enjoyment of existence.

She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.

directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for insurance.

city. It looked as it had always looked. He walked on, reminding himself that he

The destroyer, she realized, was the name of that vision, here, in their world.

The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The

Poshlust, Nabokov explains, is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

This era is overwhelmed by violence both in rhetoric and reality, communicating not through inclusion but elimination.

curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"—the verdict against my father came to my mind.

and suffering is another bad habit," as Bellow had said in Herzog.

The fear was not of bullets: they were too immediate. I was scared of some lack, as if the future were receding from me.

Much later, when I read a sentence by Nabokov—"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

Well, amigo … you can talk all you want about saving the world, but this city tends to eat away at such noble sentiments.

Biden was more succinct: "It's fucking outrageous.

I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go. --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless;

was ranked ninety-ninth in seniority, had yet to cast a vote, and didn't know where the restrooms were in the Capitol.

people were moved by emotion, not facts.