You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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