You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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