If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
AYN RANDThe source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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