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.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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