Look around, he said. A city is the frozen shape of human courage - the courage of those men who thought for the first time of every bolt, rivet and power genrator that went to make it. The courage to say, not "it seems to me", but "It is" - and to stake one's life on one's judgement.
Ayn Rand, in "Atlas shrugged"
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It is - and to stake one's life on one's jedgement. Vielleicht kann man das Wesen von Persönlichkeit in diesen Satz komprimieren, er enthält das wohl Entscheidende: den Schritt in die Insecuritas - auf den Punkt zu, wo sich Welt und Gott berühren.
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