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Mais algumas citações de Ayn Rand, retiradas do documentário "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" que eu gostei particularmente. Uma aborda a questão da importância da auto-estima:

If we have a bad nature, we have no self-esteem. If we have no self-esteem, any demigod can have us. He can order us about because we wouldn't consider ourselves valuable enough to be free. You will be anxious to follow anyone because you don't trust yourself.

O outra, é a prova em como alguém não religioso pode apreciar a vida e ter uma filosofia de vida enriquecedora.

You see, I am an atheist and I have only one religion: the sublime in human nature. There is nothing to approach the sanctity of the highest type of man possible, and there is nothing that gives me the same reverent feeling, the feeling when one's spirit wants to kneel, bare-headed. Do not call it hero worship, because it is more than that. It is a kind of strange and improbable white heat where admiration becomes religion, and religion becomes philosophy, and philosophy–the whole of one’s life.