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.
AYN RANDRationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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