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.
AYN RANDDevotion 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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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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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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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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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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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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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