A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, bu…

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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.130, Penguin
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