No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.…

Ayn Rand
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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.610, Hamilton Books
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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.610, Hamilton Books

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