If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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