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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.

Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Danger Enemy Fight Moments Necessary Pain Thinking
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
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
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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
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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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
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
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Control Freedom Government Society
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
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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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights

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