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

Ayn Rand

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
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
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
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
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
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
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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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
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
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source

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