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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.

Ayn Rand

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
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 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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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
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
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
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

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