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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Ayn Rand

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
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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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving 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
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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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
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
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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