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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

Ayn Rand

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
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Fight Happiness Learning Self Respect Value Yourself
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
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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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
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
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking

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