As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RANDJoy 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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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