The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not…

Ayn Rand
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The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind. ✨ Ayn Rand (1964). The Virtue of Selfishness, p.7, Penguin
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