People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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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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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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