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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.

Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
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
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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
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
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power

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