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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Ayn Rand

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
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
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 essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth

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