All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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