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treestar

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6. To live better

Reply to hfojvt (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 14, 2016, 07:22 PM

Apr 2016

It is IMO right wingers who are the ones that would not work - they project and reveal to us they only work because they are forced to and take that away and they wouldn't do it.

Early empires, like the Romans, fed everyone. A lot of people went from there to do more. There is always ambition.

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