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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.

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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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