An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDLove should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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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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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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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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