It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDCompromise 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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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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