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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Choice Goals Life Purpose Struggle
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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Blame Break Circumstance Expectation Forgiveness People Person Promise Responsiblity Vague
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
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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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
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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Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
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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Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World

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