I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDCapitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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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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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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