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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Ayn Rand

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Crack Crime Government Power
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
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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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Fight Happiness Learning Self Respect Value Yourself
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
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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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Inspirational One Liner Work Hard Worth
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Bitch Danger Desire Fools Insult Saint Worse Yourself
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
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Philosophy Sacrifice

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