Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
AYN RANDLearn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Let 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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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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