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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
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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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
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
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
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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
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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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