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.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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