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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

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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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Don’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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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
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 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
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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