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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Ayn Rand

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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty

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