You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDDevotion 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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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