Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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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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