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See this beautiful discription of money form this excerpt:
... Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation,
"Don't let him disturb you. You know, money is the root of all evil —and he's the typical product of money."

Rearden did not think that Francisco could have heard it, but he saw Francisco turning to them with a gravely courteous smile.
"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia.
"Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce.

Is this what you consider evil?

"When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor—your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

"Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

"But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy?

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
"To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will.
Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss—the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery—that you must offer them values, not wounds—that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade—with reason, not force, as their final arbiter—it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability—and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?

"But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires.
Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality—the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choke of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or iration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?

"Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?
"Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil?
To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your key to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it.
They know they are able to deserve it.

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil.
Source : Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

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femi4:
Chelsea captain John Terry will leave the club at the end of the season.
Terry, 35, ed at the age of 14, but the club will not renew his contract. The former England skipper says he will not represent another English club but hopes to continue his playing career.
The popular Blues captain said after his side’s emphatic 5-1 FA Cup fourth-round victory over MK Dons on Sunday: ‘To be honest, I was in last week before the Arsenal game and it’s not going to be extended. It’s my last run in the FA Cup so I want to make it a good one.
‘It’s a big season for me and I want to push on – not just in this competition but in the Premier League as well. I knew before the Arsenal game so mentally I’ve kind of accepted it. We just have to move on.’
Terry went on to explain: ‘They said that when the new manager comes in, things might change. It’s a no at the minute. I needed to know now like I have done every January and sometimes it takes a couple of months to get done.
‘Unfortunately it was a no. It’s not going to be a fairytale ending, I’m not going to retire at Chelsea. It’s going to be elsewhere which it took me a couple of days to get over.
‘But like I say, I knew before the Arsenal game and my performance isn’t going to change – the way I train, what I give for the club. I want to give everything and finish on a high, on 100 per cent good with the club.’
On his and Chelsea’s future plans, the former England skipper added: ‘We spoke about my legacy and coming back to the club when I finish. The most important thing now is to get us up the league.
‘I didn’t feel as though I was playing great in the first four or five games of the season, like everyone in the team, and the performances showed that.
‘But since then myself and everyone else has picked up back to where we are. All I can do is keep my head down and plug on because it’ll be my last year at the club.
‘The club will move on. No player is ever bigger than the club. Ideally I would have loved to stay, but the club’s moving in a different direction.
‘No doubt they’ll sign one or two great centre-backs. I want to come back as a Chelsea er in years to come with my kids and see the team doing great. unfortunately that’s not going to be with me, but I want to see the team do well. It’s going to be my last year and I want to go out at the top.’
Link

www.unilagissionguide.com/

aysuccess99: Congrats sirs. I'm happy for you guys.
ission is ours! All is well!

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damosky12:
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LinoBawse:
Congrats!

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Temitopez: Pls,2day is my exam nd i couldn't go due to sum tins can i still go for d exam 2moro.

i dont think d date u write d exam matters,writing it is what matters. Go thr, try to explain to them,u can even go 2 dia ission office or even go write the exm hoping d date on yur wont be notice. they cant kill u. dey may talk. buh who knows...

hillsnite: u r meant to try the questions to see hw prepared u are. Fews days yes,d@ d point.

wht m sayng is, evn wih my preparation if you post a questn i dont have an answer 2 u shld provide answers to it so tha i can learn frm it n not hv to go looking 4 d answr wit d lmtd time we got

nairaland.unblockandhide.com/1817675/subjects-going-write-unilag-2014

Despite the fact that Unilag boldly stated here http://www.unilag.edu.ng/newsdetails.php?NewsID=1671
that every one will be tested in English, Maths
and General Paper(Current Affairs) in the forth
coming 2014/2015 Unilag Post Utme, some
people are still in doubt due to the fact that the
exam print out bears Utme subjects
combinations.
The reason why your slip bears your Utme
combination and not just English, Maths and
General Paper is because your whole details was
imported from Jamb website. Didn’t you
notice
that the port on your slip bears UTME
signature too? Check it well!!!
Please take note that for the fact that your
Unilag post utme slip bears your jamb
combination does not change the fact that
Unilag will test you in Maths, English and Current
Affairs.
Check out the quote below from Unilag official
website;
The University of Lagos Post-UTME Screening
Exercise for ission into ALL COURSES/
PROGRAMMES for the 2014/2015 Academic
Year will commence on Monday, July 21 and
end on Thursday, July 24, 2014.
The Computer Based Test (CBT) Screening
Exercise is in the Use of English,
Mathematics and General Paper.
REGISTRATION: The online registration of
candidates for the Post-UTME Screening
Exercise is scheduled to start on Thursday, July
3, 2014 and end on Wednesday, July 16, 2014.
That’s the official statement from Unilag’s
official website hope that settles the confusion
PS; aspirants follow this thread nairaland.unblockandhide.com/1562731/unilag-2014-2015-ission
source- https://unilagissionsguide./2014/07/16/what-subjects-are-you-gonna-write-in-20142015-unilag-post-utme/

gdday evry1, to those posting questions pls endeavor 2 put answers, we r a few days frm d exam, save data and time, pls

I was thr 2day, I don't thnk dey v strtd lectures,

I'm in ilaro

obabila: Pls if u score above 50 as ur aggregate,and u choose laspotech as ur first choice,don't just sit back at home expecting ur name on list.try to find time on monday to go to the school and complain.if u have an adult or lawyer.tell the person to follow u their.don't go alone because they might want to play on ur intelligence.

the lawyer trick always works, buh who will one go to when he/she gets thr

There is little or NO more list to paste... According to information.... Laspotech have exceeded number of intake... As for Hnd list would be pasted today or latest on Monday.... Lecture resumes monday... For those itted try to pay your acceptance fee latest monday or you LOSE your ission... If you having any issues pertaining ur ission you go to the sch... Laspotech now is not Laspotech last session...

Tobieyson: God will intervene in this laspotech ojoro. Am sure with God, I will be itted

amen

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nah,

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oga4rill: Hello, any hope of 3rd list?

on their site on the issions tab, thrs main list supplementary list and third list, that shld tell tha 3rd list will come out deffo

This-is Cee:


You always always give wrong information
First,u said that mass comm dept sees literature as very compulsory..which I later found out to be totally false.
Next, u said that hnd list would be pasted once on d 11th of november. Today is 15th, no list has been pasted. Totally wrong info.
Now, u come up with this.
Pls be sure about any information u want to give out before u come here spilling false tales to us.
P.S: I knw u are an hnd full time student in laspotech. Be sure of what u say before u come here to give information authoritatively as though you are the registrar.
It's nothing personal though.

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Nt thr

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departments?

EmmCHy: in. pls help me check related department also

z nt dier o, m a science pesn o, I don't know courses related to acc. Buh I'll chck evrythng

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department?

And departments, I have d pictures but can't bcuz of their large sizes

I have the list, drop ur name

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