An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
AYN RANDCompromise 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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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