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Compromise 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.

Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Fight Happiness Learning Self Respect Value Yourself
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.
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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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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
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Compromise 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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Compromise 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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