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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.

Ayn Rand

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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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
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
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
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
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
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
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Anniversary Couple I Love You Indifference Love Matter Valentine
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
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value

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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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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