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The basic need of the creator is independence.

Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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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Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth

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