Excerpts From Books by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905. She came to America at the age of twenty-one and published her first novel, We The Living, in 1936. The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and brought Ayn Rand international fame. With the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand's position in history - both as novelist and philosopher - was established.

A timeline of Ayn Rand's life
The Ayn Rand Institute
EXCERPTS FROM 'ATLAS SHRUGGED'
EXCERPTS FROM 'FOUNTAINHEAD'
EXCERPTS FROM 'WE THE LIVING'
EXCERPTS FROM 'ANTHEM'

Quotes from Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a doctor by trade; optician more specifically. It is rumoured that during his off periods of work he would think about and write his various stories. He is well known for several science fiction works, but of course his most recognizable works are the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. He died in 1930.

He tried desperately to "kill off" Holmes so that he could pursue other genres of writing as well, and not just be known for the Holmes mysteries. However, after much public outcry, Holmes returned in "The Empty House" and in many other stories following, up to the "Case Book of Sherlock Holmes" collection.

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Quotations by Albert Einstein
Born: 14 March 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany

Died: 18 April 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have.

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