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.
AYN RANDLove 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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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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