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A CONSTRUCTIVE PERSONALITY

“A camel,” goes a dictum that the corporate world militates against, “is a horse designed by a committee.” Whoever coined this bijou of anti-collectivism would get no quarrel from Howard Roark, the architect protagonist in Russian- American author Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead.

“Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped

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