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?
AYN RANDTo 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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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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