{"text":"Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["atlas-shrugged","evil","good","john-galt","life","man","mind","morality","morals","objectivism","philosophy","pursuit-of-happiness","reason","think","thinking","values","virtue"],"id":24621,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"}