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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Danger Enemy Fight Moments Necessary Pain Thinking
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 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
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
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
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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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
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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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness

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