Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDPoverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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