The basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDYou 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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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