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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

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
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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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
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

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