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This reads as a claim that trust does not threaten the sincere, because they have nothing to hide. It can be taken to mean that defensiveness around suspicion often says more about guilt or insecurity than about principle. In a workplace review or a close friendship, it lands as a quiet test of character, calm under scrutiny rather than offended by it.
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About Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Ayn Rand, born Alice O'Connor, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing Objectivism, the philosophical system she named. Her work brought together storytelling and philosophy, and she became closely associated with a body of ideas that she presented as Objectivism. Her writing is known for combining fiction with arguments about reason, individualism, and the role of philosophy in life.
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Books by Ayn Rand
Anthem
1995
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
1992
The Fountainhead
2004
We the living
2009
For the New Intellectual
1963