Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you …

Ayn Rand
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Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. ✨ Ayn Rand (1957). ATLAS SHRUGGED
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