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		<title>A few Ayn Rand quotes on art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Impala74 via Flickr Thanks for your comments. As usual, Rand seems to have stimulated your brains! Here are a few short quotes from Ayn Rand&#8217;s &#8220;Romantic Manifesto&#8220;. (Signet Centennial edition 1975). As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.&#8221; (p. 169, quoted from &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8220;). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #17 November 11th: British autumn, and the philosophy or art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Yersinia via Flickr Update #2: At the bottom of this page is an audio player. Click on it and you will hear a recording of this session. (The mic recorded my voice clearly; it was not intended to record the other participants.) Update #1:  Ayn Rand&#8216;s ideas on art, her philosophy of art, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #10: June 24th, 2009</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/session-10-june-24th-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[big business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Kolko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Raimondo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Rodrigo Paoletti via Flickr In today&#8217;s session, we finished reading two extracts from Ayn Rand&#8216;s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. We continued discussion some of the issues Ayn Rand raises in that book: capitalism, free trade, individualism, the axiom of non-aggression, etc. We read a few extracts from Rand&#8217;s 1974 address to the graduating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Ayn Rand&#8217;s novels selling so well?</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/why-are-ayn-rands-novels-selling-so-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago, I blogged about how well Ayn Rand&#8217;s books are selling, and some possible reasons. I found several articles on the Internet on this topic. Here is one which quoted a Wall Street Journal article, which gave 3 reasons for the growing popularity of Atlas Shrugged, Atlas Shrugged depicted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #9, June 3rd, 2009: The novel of ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Rodrigo Paoletti via Flickr Today, we read another excerpt from Ayn Rand&#8216;s novel Atlas Shrugged. We read the scene where Hank Rearden&#8216;s mother comes to his office to persuade him to give his younger brother, Philip, a job. The participant who borrowed my Japanese translation of Atlas Shrugged last week, brought it back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayn Rand and the Novel of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/ayn-rand-and-the-novel-of-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr According to this press release on the website of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, sales of Rand&#8217;s blockbuster Atlas Shrugged have greatly increased this year and last year: Reports from trade sources indicate that consumer purchases of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged have tripled in the first four [...]]]></description>
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