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

Ayn Rand

The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Creation Independence Need One Liner
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
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Deal Force Men Nature Practical
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth

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