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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

Ayn Rand

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong
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
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
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 create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
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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Driver Money replace Tool
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source

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