Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
AYN RANDYou 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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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