The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco. β¨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.71, Hamilton Books
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- To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. β¨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.424, Penguin
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