Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enoug…

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Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.103, Penguin
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