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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.

Ayn Rand

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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
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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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue

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