If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
AYN RANDThe purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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