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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Ayn Rand

Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
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
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
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
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love
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
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Danger Enemy Fight Moments Necessary Pain Thinking
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War

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