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 RANDWhoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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