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Man cannot survive except through his mind.

Ayn Rand

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
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
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
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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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong

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