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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Ayn Rand

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
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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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
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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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
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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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round

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