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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

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
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Exceptional Man Mind One Liner Survival
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
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
Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman

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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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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