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.
AYN RANDDon’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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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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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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