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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.

Ayn Rand

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 difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
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
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
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
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
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power

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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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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