Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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A 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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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