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.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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