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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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.
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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
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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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Absure Acceptance Future Present Slogan
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Claim Defend Earth Individual Politics Rights
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Human Nature People Thinking Trouble Want
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant

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