Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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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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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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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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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