Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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