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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Anniversary Couple I Love You Indifference Love Matter Valentine
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want

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