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.
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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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