If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would c…

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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase to make money. No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.38, Penguin
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