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e5476c3
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So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
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philosophy
inspirational
rand
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Ayn Rand |
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a76874c
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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
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virtue
rand
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Ayn Rand |
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708e78a
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"Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!" "As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me."
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humor
nerim
rand
mat
robert
jordan
wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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910d9dd
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
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rand
parasitism
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Ayn Rand |
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cc5e0b6
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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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eye-of-the-world
rand
wheel-of-time
protection
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Robert Jordan |
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42d903c
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You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.
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time
loial
rand
wheel
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Robert Jordan |
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1f2de88
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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rhuidean
rand
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Robert Jordan |