Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
AYN RAND
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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