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.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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