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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction Editor’s Preface A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z FROM AYN RAND’S PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONAL SELF- INTEREST: AMERICA: I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. (Philosophy: Who Needs It) CAPITALISM: When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. (The Objectivist Ethics) EMOTION: An emotion that clashes with your reason, an emotion that you cannot explain or control, is only the carcass of that stale thinking which you forbade your mind to revise. (Atlas Shrugged) MORALITY: The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. (Atlas Shrugged) DR. HARRY BINSWANGER, an associate of Ayn Rand, receive......