A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RANDAn 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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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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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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