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It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that the lifeline feeding any social system is a culture’s dominant philosophy and that capitalism never had a
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“What altruism demands is the payment of a debt—an unchosen moral debt you owe to others.”
― In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
― In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
“Commodore did not have a reputation for fun and games in 1980—they were CBM, the business machine company.”
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
“The few Commodore employees who supported the VIC project gained power within the company beyond their official title.”
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
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