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We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

Martha Stewart

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Martha Stewart
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 3
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