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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.47, Penguin
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.47, Penguin

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