"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

I have been so lost and confused for 32 years. I just didn't understand why I was so different, why I cared and no one else did. I just wandered seeking answers and finding none. After reading this book, it now makes sense, I am proud of my achievements and I desire more because I should. This book trained my mind to understand what is wrong, and that it isn't me. I really am doing the right thing by striving to be all that I can be, by working so hard on even the little things, and by making every breath I take count! Thank you Ayn Rand, your birthday should be a holiday, and on here, it is!!!

Ayn Rand changed my life (for the better). I have been fortunate to have had her as my life long teacher.

How I wish she was here with us to receive our birthday greetings and good wishes and
our messages....

I lived almost all of my 67 years ignorant of Ayn Rand until those movies came out with their intriguing promotions.
A couple of months ago I w watched The Fountainhead and wondered how that Gary Cooper movie got by me.
Anyway, I've come to deeply appreciate the philosophy of Ayn Rand as well as this board,
Happy birthday, Ayn. Wish I had discovered you during the 70s
The 60s? I was too power to the sheeple counter-culture lib-tarded and PO'd over Vietnam.

I read that on the average a civilization lasts 250 years before it becomes corrupted and loses the things that made it great. That seems to be about on target for the USA. The founding fathers did a pretty good job of gaining freedom for THEMSELVES and THEIR religion.. However the early history of the USA was in clear violation of the very constitution they wrote. Ask the Indians, the Mexicans, the Mormons, etc. Contained in the constitution were the very things that would bring it down- mainly a lack of sanctity of private property. We see every day now the taking of money from one group to give to another more politically favored group. Even Ayn Rands disciple (Alan Greenspan) became a statist and turned on his Randian roots once he got the power of the FED. It would be nice to think that we could educate people to appreciate capitalism, but I dont think this is the way it works. It will take collapse, as Rand predicted would happen, to change things.

Ayn, Happy "B" day. You help me to form my thinking. When is John gotng to visit me?

Perfectly written! Thank You, John, for your excellent adaptation of "Atlas Shrugged" for the silver screen! Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand - "Atlas Shrugged" was published two years before I was born, but I thank G'd for the opportunity to see the films and read your exceptional work! Now, if only enough Americans will wake up...
RIP

Happy Birthday to Ayn. One of the last great hopes for keeping the USA what it was meant to be. Spread the word everyone. Lend out a copy of AS or your cd of the movies.

My life has been an Ayn Rand novel with a purpose. The Barry Academy students delved into ANTHEM and I used it in communication classes at the community college level as a starting point to further reading of her works. I had the pleasure of hearing her address to the business community in New Orleans when I was on the chamber board and shall never forget her strong warnings that have come to pass. Atlas Shrugged has been my inspiration for 47 years as an educator, having used my retirement funds to support my school research. Rand lives through multi-thousands of my past students who join me in this Happy Birthday greeting.

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, a.k.a. AR, gave
the world as much in terms of clarity about healthy
human nature as Einstein gave us in physics;
her excellence continues to inspire us!!! -- j

The only way socialism dies is when civilization collapses. This is what happened in Atlas Shrugged, and its what will have to happen in Venezuela, Russia, and in the USA

I always loved Ground Hog Day. My favorite holiday - of those that didn't give me presents or candy.

Imagine my delight, many years later, to find it was Her birthday.

Long past knowing or caring, I'm sure, but Happy Birthday anyway Miss Rand.

I thank god for you every day.

The US is in dire need of a revolution against a dependency culture. Ayn Rand's birthday could well be the date that such a revolution begins.

Splendens astrum.

I didn't know that 2/2 was Ms. Rand's birthday, but how fitting that she shares the spotlight with that other harbinger of things to come...Pauxatawny Phil! It's not 'Groundhog Day' for me anymore, it's Ayn Rand Day...

I want to get back in to the site. I didn't get to answer the question "Tell us about yourself."

Happy B-Day Ayn - I am honored to say that you taught me the things being hidden by the US government. Your geneous 70 years ago is overlooked today by all the takers...