The Atlas/John Galt cards, part 3.5
I put this same image on my previous post on this, but I moved it so that people could see it better.
This project is one to continue to get the word out widely that there ARE movies, that there IS a book that people should see &/or read.
The previous cards were used in many ways - as an introduction at a gun show, as a bookmark in a random book in the library, as "social cards". My favorite way was to put my name and phone number on the card, tell people to read whichever Rand book I thought might be best for them AND if they thought it was a waste of money, to call me and I'd refund it. I never got any calls, and I did about 40 or 50 cards that way.
LetsShrug passed this project to me, so I will design and order the cards and send them out to you as requested.
This is not a free service [remember where you are]. VistaPrint cards are good quality and very very cheap. I'll ask that you reimburse me and pay the postage.
Feel free to send me possible quotes [you may PM if you you like and are able]. Share possible uses.
I'll be collecting quotes, and then designing a bit, and the order should go in on Wednesday. I'll let you know the INSTANT they come in!
send me quotes!
note ways to use these to spread the word - the best one may win a prize!
as a radical of my acquaintance says,
"We have a world to win."
This project is one to continue to get the word out widely that there ARE movies, that there IS a book that people should see &/or read.
The previous cards were used in many ways - as an introduction at a gun show, as a bookmark in a random book in the library, as "social cards". My favorite way was to put my name and phone number on the card, tell people to read whichever Rand book I thought might be best for them AND if they thought it was a waste of money, to call me and I'd refund it. I never got any calls, and I did about 40 or 50 cards that way.
LetsShrug passed this project to me, so I will design and order the cards and send them out to you as requested.
This is not a free service [remember where you are]. VistaPrint cards are good quality and very very cheap. I'll ask that you reimburse me and pay the postage.
Feel free to send me possible quotes [you may PM if you you like and are able]. Share possible uses.
I'll be collecting quotes, and then designing a bit, and the order should go in on Wednesday. I'll let you know the INSTANT they come in!
send me quotes!
note ways to use these to spread the word - the best one may win a prize!
as a radical of my acquaintance says,
"We have a world to win."
Also, richrobinson has given out hundreds at his store...I've left them at many stores etc. "You never know when a mind will open."
They looked [meaningful pause] BIBLICAL?
This I wanna hear.
"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
I understand some people would find the book a bit daunting. Do you think the cards should be used more to promote the movies?
I am thinking that the cards should promote both, but lean more heavily on the movie side than the book side. I'm not sure how to do that, exactly, but I'm thinking.
All of your thoughts gracefully, I hope, received.
"there's no such thing as a lousy job–only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
you live for yourself
-- j
I am sending this quote to my 22 year old daughter right now. Hopefully she will she will add it to her check-off list of criteria for prospective boyfriends.
I was hoping the movie would succeed and allow a broader range of people to view the concepts, but it (particularly III) are not going to have very wide appeal, even with our hawking of it.
"It is Still Mine" is a movie that can catch the leftie's off guard.
I guess I have to have some of these for my desk at home and work. Perhaps my catch phrase should be "Why do you think the government knows what to do with your resources better than you?"
Another good one is "Everyone in the US lives better than almost anyone in Africa. Have the rich really enslaved the poor or does individual wealth breed wealth and enrich us all?"
Great idea!
I am a printer and may be able to work something out on these cards to make it easier for people. Pm me specs if interested.
Ed
thanks - I'd rather keep business "in the family"
“Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.”
value for value.
-- j
15 words, max, I think.
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
Too long! and People won't read thru to the kicker.
I love it, though.
value your life;
learn to write!
-- j
They must have confused yourself with me.
I absolutely agree with you about shorter is better [for quotes] but am not in favor of paraphrasing. Rand, especially, is hard to paraphrase using fewer words. Most people end up using more!
1) "We do not tell; we show. We do not claim; we prove."
-Hugh Axton
2)"You've discovered our first rule around here Miss Taggart. One must always see for oneself."
-John Galt
3)"Justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists."
-Judge Naragansett
4)"What is wealth, but the means of expanding one's life?"
-Ellis Wyatt
5)"Achievement is man's highest moral purpose."
-Francisco D'Anconia
6)"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. But what I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself to faking reality."
- Henry Reardon
Cheers!
The quote used in AS3 is like #6 - I can't remember exactly, but it was about faking reality.
The problem is, people will look at that and say, affronted, "I'm not faking reality! Reality is REAL, you can't fake it."
where will you leave them?
It's like a "no thinking here' visor flips down over their brains!
giggles at the very thought.......
“What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.”
I happen to be in the business of helping my clients actualize this one.
Had enough?
and a paraphrase of: Wealth; produce more or produce faster.
For the 'the book is so long" group, of which I am very occasionally one, post a card-holder at your place of business, add cards, and add a sign which says
I'll bet you can't read a 1168-page book in 6 months! In fact, I'll pay you $ [amount left to poster] if you do. notice: I will ask you one or two questions, so you will have the opportunity to show me that you have read the book."
oh, bother.
I will ask you 1 or 2 pithy questions, so.....
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy."
thank you very much for your thought.
I'll tell you his value
-- j