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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others – misfortune is …

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others – misfortune is not a mortgage on achievement – failure is not a mortgage on success – suffering is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence – man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause – life is not one huge hospital. Ayn Rand
Apollo 11, The Objectivist, (1905-1982)