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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Ayn Rand

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
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
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
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
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
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
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
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
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical

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