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Selfish interest Quote by Ayn Rand

“they’ve said for years that he rose by thwarting the ability of others, by leaving them no chance, and that . . . that human incompetence was to his selfish interest. . . . But he . . . it wasn’t obedience that he required of people.” “Miss Taggart,” he said, with an odd note of sternness in his…” quote by Ayn Rand
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““they’ve said for years that he rose by thwarting the ability of others, by leaving them no chance, and that . . . that human incompetence was to his selfish interest. . . . But he . . . it wasn’t obedience that he required of people.” “Miss Taggart,” he said, with an odd note of sternness in his voice, “just remember that he represented a code of existence which—for a brief span in all human history—drove slavery out of the civilized world. Remember it, when you feel baffled by the nature of his enemies.””

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