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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

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 man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
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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Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
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
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
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

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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