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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?

Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade 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
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
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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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
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
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Exceptional Man Mind One Liner Survival
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
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
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

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