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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Ayn Rand

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
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
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
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
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
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
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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