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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.

Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Driver Money replace Tool
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
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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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Be Yourself Myself Symbol
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
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
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason

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