Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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