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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

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
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
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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
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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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
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
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
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

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