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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.

Ayn Rand

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
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.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
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
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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