I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one observes the actual requirements of man’s survival and prosperity, one finds that all three of the foregoing—reason, egoism, capitalism—are indivisible.
— Ayn Rand Modern

Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged

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The Virtue of Selfishness

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1964

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Strange & Unusual

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https://books.google.com/books?id=BKYEAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+am+not+primarily+an+advoca…

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