In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision …

Ayn Rand
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In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.817, Hamilton Books
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