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.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at 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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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