You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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