In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can w…

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.170, Penguin
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