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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Ayn Rand

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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
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
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence

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