You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDIf a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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