The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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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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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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