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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman
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
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
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
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
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
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

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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