Merry Christmas from Ayn Rand

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The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle. -- The Objectivist Calendar, Dec. 1976, from "The Ayn Rand Lexicon" online http://aynrandlexicon.com/


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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    U of mm has No problem with Ramadan
    CAIR-MN to Host Ramadan Dinner,
    (MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 5/23/14) – On July 12, 2014 the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) will host a Ramadan Dinner
    WHAT: CAIR-MN Ramadan Dinner CAIR-MN to Host Ramadan Dinner
    (MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 5/23/14) – On July 12, 2014 the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) will host a Ramadan Dinner .
    WHAT: CAIR-MN Ramadan Dinner
    WHEN: Saturday, July 12, 7:00pm
    WHERE: Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, 300 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55445
    WHEN: Saturday, July 12, 7:00pm
    WHERE: Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, 300 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55445
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