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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.

Ayn Rand

What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
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.
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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
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
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty

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