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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.

Ayn Rand

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
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
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
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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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
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
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong

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