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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

Ayn Rand

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

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