Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
AYN RANDPatience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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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 only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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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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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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