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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

Ayn Rand

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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