Ayn Rand quote — “... he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself wit…”

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... he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane — that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won — that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself.

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