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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
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
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
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
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
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
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
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
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
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
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol

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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