If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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 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.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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