It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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 is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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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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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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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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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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