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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Ayn Rand

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
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool
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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
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
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
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
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
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
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
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
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
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate

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