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" Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "

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" Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. "

" Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. "

" Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. "

" 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. "

" Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. "

" Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. "

" 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. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. "

" There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. "

" Evil requires the sanction of the victim. "

" The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. "

" Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. "

" To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. "

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" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

" It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. "

" The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "

" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. "

" The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. "

The Hardest Thing

" The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. "

" Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. "

" Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. "

" Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. "

" The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "

" Potentially, 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. "

" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "

" Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. "