We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

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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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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

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

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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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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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