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 RANDTo say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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