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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

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
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
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
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
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
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
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

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