It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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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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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.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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Devotion 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.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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 smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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