People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Man cannot survive except through his 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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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