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    Btw, there's a reason why Atlas Shrugged (along with The Fountainhead) continues to be favourited by countless people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_S...wed_popularity it provides an alternative to the garbage that exists out there, and the empty life that intellectuals whom you all look up to with puppy dog eyes have created.
    The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy's impotence, but the proof of philosophy's power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state-it is only philosophy that can lead them out.
    -Ayn Rand

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    Quote Originally Posted by Draco View Post
    Btw, there's a reason why Atlas Shrugged (along with The Fountainhead) continues to be favourited by countless people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_S...wed_popularity it provides an alternative to the garbage that exists out there, and the empty life that intellectuals whom you all look up to with puppy dog eyes have created.
    Loving the irony from someone looking up with puppy dog eyes to a book.

    Well played Sir.

    And I'm with you! Intellectuals! Pffft! What have they ever done for us eh?

    /Ziggy shrugged
    I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
    I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
    Which is what I am

    I aim at the stars
    But sometimes I hit London

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