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Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You__e wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he__ ever held a truly personal desire, he__ find the answer. He__ see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He__ not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander__ delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can__ say about a single thing: __his is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me_. Then he wonders why he__ unhappy.
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
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Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You__e wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he__ ever held a truly personal desire, he__ find the answer. He__ see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He__ not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander__ delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can__ say about a single thing: __his is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me_. Then he wonders why he__ unhappy.
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The Fountainhead

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