The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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.
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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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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