Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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?
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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