The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: Lando Lincoln on July 19, 2012, 03:09:14 am
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I might try to compile timely quotes from Atlas Shrugged. I say might because it could prove challenging. Here is the first one:
“He didn’t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?”
“Who?”
“Rearden. He didn’t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn’t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it’s his? Why does he think it’s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.”
She said, puzzled, “But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn’t anybody else make that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?”
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Quite apropos of Mr. Obama's recent putdown of private business.
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I might try to compile timely quotes from Atlas Shrugged. I say might because it could prove challenging.
A noble (entertaining and informative) undertaking on your part--since the book is practically a bible for those of us on the right. Gee, it's been years since I first read Atlas Shrugged.
I think you've inspired me to tackle it once again, Lando. Because, as Ocean said, the book's philosophical underpinning is so especially relevant today. From Wiki:
"The book explores a dystopian United States where many of society's most productive citizens refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and go on strike."
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I have been away from computers and have been unable to post. I will reconnect better next week!
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“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
From Atlas Shrugged
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I have been away from computers and have been unable to post. I will reconnect better next week!
Hurry back! :beer:
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Hurry back! :beer:
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