She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.
...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man__ foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...
Atlas Shrugged
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...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man__ foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...
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