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.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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