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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Ayn Rand

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
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?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
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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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World

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