There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
AYN RANDAs we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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 started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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