The basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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