An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDMy 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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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