To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
AYN RANDThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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