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About LinkBacksThis is an essay on individual rights by the author of Atlas Shrugged.
It's fairly lengthy, but a good read.
The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: "Man's Rights" by Ayn Rand
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This is an essay on individual rights by the author of Atlas Shrugged.
It's fairly lengthy, but a good read.
The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: "Man's Rights" by Ayn Rand
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
Terry
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Very good read. One I think I'll have to read several times to fully digest. Very interesting alongside Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason.
Thanks, Cap'n!
Cheers,
Rod
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded!" Dick Winters
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Great essay - thanks for sharing. I completely agree.
Austin
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Although she had her faults, as we all do, Ayn Rand was one of the worlds great advocates for the use of reason as the primary tool of cognition and of individual rights. Her essay is a very good and imprtant read.
"It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien
In-depth reading.....worth reading.
"That I cannot do."
"Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. After all we're not murderers in spite of what this undertaker thinks."
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Good stuff Capt!! Thanks for posting.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."
-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)
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Excellent Read!
Funny how an essay written in 1963 is so profoundly reflective of today...........
"Just getting a concealed carry permit means you haven't commited a crime yet. CCP holders commit crimes." Daniel Vice, senior attorney for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, quoted on Fox & Friends, 8 Jul, 2008
(Sometimes) "a fight avioded is a fight won." ... claude clay
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Blasphemy!Originally Posted by Ron
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
http://miscmusings.townhall.com/
Who is John Galt?
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Ayn Rand was a good writer, but a kook. As a Russian immigrant who enjoyed the craft of writing, who renamed herself as an adult after a male Finnish writer and her last from a Remington-Rand typewriter. (Intellectual Morons, Daniel Flynn)
In that paper she denies God. I know libertarians love her. Also John Galt is her fictional Jesus. I prefer the real thing. Ayn Rand is not a God.
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Sorry, but you haven't made much of a case for her being a "kook". Thomas Paine was probably a "kook" in your view, too.
Cheers,
Rod
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded!" Dick Winters
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