To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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