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.
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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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