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August 5th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
“The heirs of d’Anconia had been an unbroken line of first sons, who knew how to bear his name. It was a tradition of the family that the man to disgrace them would be the heir who died leaving the d’Anconia fortune no greater than he had received it. Throughout the generations, that disgrace had not come. An Argentinian legends said that the hand of a d’Anconia had the miraculous power of the saints–only it was not the power to heal, but the power to produce. ” (92)
[I want to figure out how this is possible in RL.]
August 5th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
“His attitude was not ‘I can do it better than you,’ but simply, ‘I can do it.’ What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.” (92)
[:-D]
August 5th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
“In his lifetime, every one of my ancestor raised the productivity of d’Anconia Copper by about 10 %. I intend to raise it by one hundred… [because] 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… I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all–that I was a man who made money (94)”
[I love this!]
August 7th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
“Man’s metaphysical pretensions, ” he said, “are preposterous. A miserable bit of protoplasm, full of ugly little concepts and mean little emotions - and it imagines itself important! Really, you know, that is the root of all the troubles in the world.”
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