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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.

Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Die Enjoyment Live Moral Purpose Suffering Teaching Yourself
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
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
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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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State

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