The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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