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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.

Ayn Rand

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
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
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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