Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualis…

Ayn Rand
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Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.231, Penguin
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