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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Ayn Rand

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
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
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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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
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
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
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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Approach Evil Life Man Money Run Sentence
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner

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