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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

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
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
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
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
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue

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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