If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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