Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in …

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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.152, Penguin
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.152, Penguin

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