Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
AYN RANDDon’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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