Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,
an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
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