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.
AYN RANDCapitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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