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“It's easier to donate a few
thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of
personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes:
love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.” Love this, but why not be competent first - then be loving charming kind? Why must it be a trade off?
— 12 hours, 50 min ago
thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of
personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes:
love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.” Love this, but why not be competent first - then be loving charming kind? Why must it be a trade off?
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Niranjana Sundararajan
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“In what act or
thought of his has there ever been a self? What was his aim in life? Greatness--in other
people's eyes. Fame, admiration, envy--all that which comes from others. Others dictated his
convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others believed he held them.
… He didn't want to be great, but to be
thought great. He didn't want to build, but to be admired as a builder.”
— 12 hours, 58 min ago
thought of his has there ever been a self? What was his aim in life? Greatness--in other
people's eyes. Fame, admiration, envy--all that which comes from others. Others dictated his
convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others believed he held them.
… He didn't want to be great, but to be
thought great. He didn't want to build, but to be admired as a builder.”
Niranjana Sundararajan
is on page 604 of 704
“Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who gets things done. But to get things done you must love the doing,not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people... I’ll be glad if the people who need it find a better manner of living in a house I designed. But that’s not the motive of my work. Nor my reason. Nor my reward.”
— 15 hours, 19 min ago
Niranjana Sundararajan
is on page 389 of 704
It’s a bunch of people with questionable moral compasses. But maybe I’m too jaded to even notice the difference between the characters in the book and those I’ve seen irl? I have a feeling AR would’ve liked the world we now live in.
— Mar 04, 2026 06:02AM
Niranjana Sundararajan
is on page 389 of 704
It’s gotten weird now. Don’t know if I like it anymore
— Mar 04, 2026 05:55AM
Niranjana Sundararajan
is on page 225 of 704
Rchd the point where I can’t put it down. I like that Roark and Dominique are not 3D characters - they seem to represent two philosophies clashing against each other(Roark the intellectual and Dominique the indifferent). I love the writing,I’m enjoying(not literally but literarily) the choices Roark makes-it’s very consistent with his character. I’ve always enjoy reading characters with strong convictions.
— Mar 01, 2026 04:20AM
