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Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.100, Penguin
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Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.100, Penguin

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