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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.

Ayn Rand

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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Exceptional Man Mind One Liner Survival
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
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
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
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
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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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State

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