She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart β¨ Ayn Rand (2011). Ayn Rand Novel Collection, p.1972, Penguin
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- The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity. β¨ Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p.39, Penguin
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