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

Ayn Rand

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
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
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
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
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
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights

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