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Comment author: katydee 04 February 2014 07:50:26AM 11 points [-]

The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom - you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero.

Colonel John Boyd

Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 February 2014 08:37:55AM 21 points [-]

On the other hand:

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

Comment author: Antisuji 06 February 2014 02:42:47AM 5 points [-]

Or, of course, some combination thereof.

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