Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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