Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RANDShe did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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