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Ayn Rand’s Ideas: An Introduction by Aaron Smith

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The Importance of a Sacrifice

A sacrifice is when you give up something more important for the sake of something that's less important. Is cutting off your foot ever a value? No, deliberate personal damage is not a value and never can be. There are all sorts of things that people call sacrifice, which are enormous. They're in really important values, but they're not sacrifices. So I sacrifice so much to get to where I am today. It's like, I hope you didn't, you know?

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