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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"'That's not fair' is the ubiquitous refrain of six-year-olds and intellectuals."
-- Allen R. Sanderson
"A rule should be a rule, and it may have exceptions. An exception, however, should not be its own rule that overrides the original rule."
-- my Economics teacher, Jody Christman
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." (I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.)
-- Thomas Jefferson