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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Ayn Rand

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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
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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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
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
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
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
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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool

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