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Favorite line from ATLAS SHRUGGED?
Posted on 03/04/2011 6:41:17 PM PST by albionin
Just saw a clip from the new ATLAS SHRUGGED movie and thought it would be fun to hear everyone's favorite line from the book if you've read it. There are so many to pick from but I think mine is when Francisco has just deliberately caused the crash of D'anconia Copper's stock and he says to James Taggert: "money is the root of all evil, so I just got tired of being evil". Love it!
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KEYWORDS: atlasshrugged; favorite; quotes
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So what's your favorite?
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:41:19 PM PST
by
albionin
To: albionin
Pg 379-pg 386. Inclusive.
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:44:35 PM PST
by
REDWOOD99
To: albionin
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:45:16 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: albionin
“But, I don’t think of you”
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:47:37 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
To: albionin
Mine is the creed:
“I swear by my life and for my love of it that I shall never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine...”
To: muir_redwoods
“But, I don’t think of you”That was from "The Fountainhead".
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:49:50 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: albionin
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:50:07 PM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
(POTUS 45 Sarah Palin....Resistance is futile! Prepare to be liberated!)
To: albionin
Something with “Directive 10-289” in it.
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:51:08 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
It’s still a great line though.
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:52:48 PM PST
by
albionin
To: albionin
Indeed, one of my favorites from that movie.
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:54:09 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: albionin
Never read it. Seem to be living much of it. The “weather” has not acclimated to me yet. (abridged version)
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:55:45 PM PST
by
allmost
To: albionin; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
To: albionin
So if “The Fountainhead” quotes are welcome...”Buildings have integrity, just like men...and just as seldom.”
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:57:06 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: albionin
"Why the hell are you shrugging so much?!"
To: Revolting cat!
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
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posted on
03/04/2011 7:01:28 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: albionin
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens?"
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posted on
03/04/2011 7:02:27 PM PST
by
Roccus
(Pass enough laws and EVERYONE becomes a law breaker.)
To: albionin
“I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.”
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posted on
03/04/2011 7:03:15 PM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: JoeProBono
“Speeches, declarations, manifestos. That’s not literature, that’s litter!”, said Louis.
To: albionin
The first sentence in the book:
"Who is John Galt?"
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posted on
03/04/2011 7:05:10 PM PST
by
Lou L
(The Senate without a fillibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
To: Roccus
Beat me to it.
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posted on
03/04/2011 7:05:10 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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