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I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

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Maurice Saatchi
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 21
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Maurice Nathan Saatchi
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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
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I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.
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Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety it is the goal, not the starting point.
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America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.
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