The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RANDA 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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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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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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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