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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

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
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 man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering

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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