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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

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
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
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
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
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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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
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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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason

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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