I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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