We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDPeople create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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 man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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