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The Handmaid's Tale
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Christopher Hitchens
“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
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tags: ayn-rand, individualism, libertarianism, objectivism, selfishness
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“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
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