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" 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. "
Ayn Rand
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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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" 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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