Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 Chapter 5: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Summary: Willers tells Dagny that the San Sebastián Mines were worthless. Dagny came to the Wayne-Falkland Hotel to meet d’Anconia, and first had a flashback to their childhood, focusing on his excellence in education, their romance, his inheritance (age 23), his going on strike (age 26), and transition into a playboy. Real time: Dagny and Francisco converse about old times, about the mines, and about his motives.
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Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.
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Start by reading the first-tier comments, which are all quotes of Ayn Rand (some of my favorites, some just important for other reasons). Comment on your favorite ones, or others' comments. Don't see your favorite quote? Post it in a new comment. Please reserve new comments for Ayn Rand, and your non-Rand quotes for "replies" to the quotes or discussion. (Otherwise Rand's quotes will get crowded out and pushed down into oblivion. You can help avoid this by "voting up" the Rand quotes, or at least the ones you think people should see, and voting down first-tier comments that are not quotes of the featured book.)
Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.
My idea for this post is discussed here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
“True.”
“Then – why?”
He shrugged. “Who is John Galt?”
“Oh, don’t use gutter language!”
… He answered, as he had answered in the night, in this hotel, ten years ago, “You’re not ready to hear it.”
“Whom?”
“The looters, and those who make world-looting possible. The Mexican planners and their kind.”
His smile had a dangerous edge. “No, my dear. It’s you that I have to fight.”
“No.”
“It seems to me that there are other things in the world.”
“Let others think about them.”
“Isn’t that a very selfish attitude?”
“It is.”
“What are you after?”
“Money.”
“Don’t you have enough?”
… “When I die, I hope to go to heaven – whatever the hell that is – and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.”
“Virtue is the price of admission,” Jim said haughtily.
“That’s what I mean, James. So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all – that I was a man who made money.”
“Any grafter can make money.”
“James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.”
This forum has seen its share of abortion debates, and there will be more. This doesn't need to be another one. But one thing everyone here should agree on is that the State ought not to be spending tax money to provide medical services, even if it's for women health issues, even if it's to subsidize an organization that provides abortions. To an Objectivist, this should be a point of common ground regardless of what you believe about the morality of abortion.
“Of what? Courage?”
But he did not answer.
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