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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

Ayn Rand

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
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
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
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
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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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Die Enjoyment Live Moral Purpose Suffering Teaching Yourself
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

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