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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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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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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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