Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man__ love of existence to a circuit of torture, so that only the man who had nothing to offer would have nothing to fear, so that the virtues which made life possible and the values which gave it meaning became the agents of its destruction, so that one__ best became the tool of one__ agony, and man__ life on earth became impractical.
Atlas Shrugged
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Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man__ love of existence to a circuit of torture, so that only the man who had nothing to offer would have nothing to fear, so that the virtues which made life possible and the values which gave it meaning became the agents of its destruction, so that one__ best became the tool of one__ agony, and man__ life on earth became impractical.
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