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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
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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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection

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