“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
― Ayn Rand
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“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.”
― Ayn Rand |
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
― Ayn Rand
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand
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“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand
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“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand
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“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
― Ayn Rand
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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.”
― Ayn Rand
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“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand |
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ”
― Ayn Rand |
“When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.”
― Ayn Rand
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand
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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.”
― Ayn Rand
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“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
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“Every loneliness is a pinnacle”
― Ayn Rand |
“What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. ”
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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand
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“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”
― Ayn Rand
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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.”
― Ayn Rand |
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