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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

Ayn Rand

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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
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
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
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
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
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
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World

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