Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.
Through all the ages the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiter__very form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation__very form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squad__ave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection. Yet only to the extent to which__n chains, in dungeons, in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders__ome men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive.
Atlas Shrugged
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Through all the ages the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiter__very form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation__very form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squad__ave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection. Yet only to the extent to which__n chains, in dungeons, in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders__ome men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive.
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