All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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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.
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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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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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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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