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We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
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As quoted in The 100 Greatest Heroes (2003) p. 60 by Harry Paul Jeffers

 

Boris Yeltsin

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I notice me. I notice you too.
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