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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.

Ayn Rand

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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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
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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Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
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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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
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
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
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce

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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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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