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" To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. "
Ayn Rand
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" Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. "
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" To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. "
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" The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. "
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" The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "
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" People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. "
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" Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. "
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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. "
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" 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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" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "
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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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" Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. "
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" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "
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" So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? "
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" Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. "
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