"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."

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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

— Ayn Rand