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 RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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