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

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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
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
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
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
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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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong
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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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
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
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive

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