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• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on this earth unarmed.
  His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force....
• A man can lose his soul among the stars. Much later, he may realize that his body acted for him, guiding his ship while his mind traveled in realms he cannot remember.
  They call it _the far look._ It is dangerous. A man's soul does not always return....
• It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.
  -- Proverbs 19:2...
• Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
• He who fights the devil with his own weapons, must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.
  -- South...
• Who is John Galt? An explorer, the greatest explorer that ever lived.
  The man who found the fountain of youth.John Galt spent years looking for it....
• Let the caveman who does not choose to accept the axiom of identity
  try to present his theory without using the concept of identity or any concept derived from it -- let the anthropoid who does not choose to accept the existence of nouns, try to devise a language without nouns, adjectives, or verbs -- let the witch doctor who does not choose to accept the validity of sensory perception, try to prove it without using the data he obtained by sensory perception -- let the head-hunter who does not choose to accept the validity of logic, try to prove it without logic -- let the pygmy who proclaims that a skyscraper needs no foundation after it reaches its fiftieth story, yank the base from under his building, not yours -- let the cannibal who snarls that the freedom of man's mind was needed to create an industrial civilization, but is not needed to maintain it, be given an arrowhead and a bearskin, not a university chair of economics....
• MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.
  (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering....