We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDLet 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.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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 problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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