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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

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
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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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
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
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
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
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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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Die Enjoyment Live Moral Purpose Suffering Teaching Yourself
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Approach Evil Life Man Money Run Sentence
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach

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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