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My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.

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Elizabeth Warren
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Oklahoma City
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