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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

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
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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 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
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
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
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman

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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