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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.

Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
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
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect

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