A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RANDPoverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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