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a rule for behavior — especially a shared moral doctrine
- I have carried out every moral precept of our age.1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (49% in)
- We put into practice that noble historical precept: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (71% in)
- It's some sort of fraud, very ancient and very vast-and the key to break it is: to check every premise they teach us, to question every precept, to-"2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (98% in)
- Instead of the disgrace he had dreaded, there was an air of awed uncertainty in people's manner-uncertainty of their own moral precepts, awe in the presence of two persons who dared to be certain of being right.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (24% in)
There are no more uses of "precept" in Atlas Shrugged.
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