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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (517)

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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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Truth is the recognition of reality reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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Love is our response to our highest values.
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Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
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Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.
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I take no pride in hopeless longing I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
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It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
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If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
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Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
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If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money either in matter or in spirit.
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The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.
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Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.
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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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And man will go on. Man, not men.
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A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
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