An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it w…

Ayn Rand
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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. ✨ Ayn Rand (1984). Philosophy: Who Needs It, p.75, Penguin
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