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The fundamental principles of economics are not hard to understand, but they are easy to forget, especially amid the heady rhetoric of politics and the media.
“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“You cannot reach a mind that chooses to be closed or is so incapacitated that even if, momentarily, it wanted to integrate properly, it could not. Such a mind lacks the capacity of full focus, and is the proper concern only of a psychotherapist.”
― The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
― The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the young, of the old, of the unborn.' There are only the Rights of Man -- rights possessed by every individual man and by all men as individuals.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination,” Plagueis said. “Courage comes next.”
― Darth Plagueis
― Darth Plagueis
“The giants of the intellect, whom you admire so much, once taught you that the earth was flat and that the atom was the smallest particle of matter. The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
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