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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Ayn Rand

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
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible 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
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
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
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
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

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