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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

Ayn Rand

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
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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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Approach Evil Life Man Money Run Sentence
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
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

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