If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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