Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
AYN RANDContradictions 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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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