“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (Primary source)
Architect Howard Roark refuses to compromise his innovative designs for conventional styles, battling the architectural establishment and society’s pressure to conform. The novel champions individual creativity and integrity against collectivist mediocrity and social conformity.
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“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein Disputed“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source