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Punishing achievement isn't gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that's not good. All that is is punitive. Why don't you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?

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Rush Limbaugh
Age: 70 †
Born: 1951
Born: January 12
Died: 2021
Died: February 17
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