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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.

Ayn Rand

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
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
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
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
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
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
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society

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