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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.

Ayn Rand

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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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
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
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
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
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
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
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.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
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
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
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

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