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Happy Independence Day to all Americans on the site!

In celebration, I offer one of my all-time favorite quotes from the novel Atlas Shrugged:

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose-because it contains all the others-the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity-to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality." - Francisco d'Anconia