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

Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational
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
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Inspirational Knowledge Learning Scare
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
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
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
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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women

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