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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.

Ayn Rand

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
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
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
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
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
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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Driver Money replace Tool
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship

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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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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