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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Makes
Others
Slaves
Remember
Entitled
Anything
Maintain
Live
Slave
Without
Labor
Liberty
Freedom

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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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