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The fact that you support the immoral acts of homosexuals shows me you are a second-hander who likes his heroes with clay feet.
Steve Mariotti: Remembering Ayn Rand Steve Mariotti 2011
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I hope he's not one of those swarthy Italian-looking fellows though, as anyone with a hint of the Mediterranean or Levant was always a parasitic second-hander of some sort in Rand's books.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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If you do use the menu, take care not to order the same thing as your friend — the brusque waiters may dismiss you as a "second-hander."
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Prestige wrongfully elevates the approval of others into an end in itself (the “second-hander”); power is either the power of the looter or suffers from the same second-handedness problem; charity is a sign of impermissible altruism or self-sacrifice.yankee(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Non-Contradiction of Rand’s Capitalism 2009
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If you do use the menu, take care not to order the same thing as your friend — the brusque waiters may dismiss you as a "second-hander."
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Ever the second-hander intellectual mountebank, Stross manages to mangle a bevy of technical and economic gobbledygook and shoehorn it into an exponentially spiraling plotline.
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Ever the second-hander intellectual mountebank, Stross manages to mangle a bevy of technical and economic gobbledygook and shoehorn it into an exponentially spiraling plotline.
December 2006 2006
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No, I don't mean that everyone who ever got a piercing or a tattoo is necessarily a Randian 'second-hander'.
kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2002
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Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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The code of the creator or the code of the second-hander.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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