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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Ayn Rand

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
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
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
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
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
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
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner

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