If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canal…

Ayn Rand
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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.284, Penguin
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