A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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 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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