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My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count, ” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational – not relating their one action or one conviction to another.Ayn Rand
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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.Ayn Rand