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 RANDIt is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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