A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RAND
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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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