If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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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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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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