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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.   D'Anconia, Francisco

This quote is actually from Ayn Rands' Atlas Shrugged. Francisco D'Anconia is a character in the novel. · This quote is tagged Adversity · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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