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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.

Ayn Rand

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
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
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
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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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
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
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love

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