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

Ayn Rand

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
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
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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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
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
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
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

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