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Man cannot survive except through his mind.

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
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
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
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
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
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
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Exceptional Man Mind One Liner Survival
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
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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
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
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

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