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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.

Ayn Rand

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Fight Happiness Learning Self Respect Value Yourself
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection

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