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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Ayn Rand

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
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
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
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
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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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value

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