"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
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"Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others."
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"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
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"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
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"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism."
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"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."
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"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
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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 majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery."
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"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline."
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"I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark"
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"Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
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"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."
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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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"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry."
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"Do not let your fire go out."
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"The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal."
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"Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
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"To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense."
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"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."
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