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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Danger Enemy Fight Moments Necessary Pain Thinking
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
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
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
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
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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