An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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