All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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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 never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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