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?
AYN RANDAll life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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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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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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