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

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
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
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice

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