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Live and let live

We should live the life we choose and allow others to do the same.

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Idioms and Phrases

Show tolerance for those different from yourself. For example, I'm not going to tell my sister what to do—live and let live, I say . [First half of 1600s]

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And that’s when I get really upset, like we really need to do a lot of education on anthropomorphizing, on just live and let live, and step back.

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“I’m all about ‘live and let live,’” she said.

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“I’m all about ‘live and let live,’ ” she said.

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For example, at recent National Conservatism conferences, which I wrote about for the New Republic and Salon, numerous speakers argued that conservatives need to move beyond the classically liberal conception of "live and let live" pluralism, individual liberty and free expression, to a totalizing culture war fight that sees its aim as “defeating the enemy and enjoying the spoils.”

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“Genuinely curious: why do you care? Live and let live. No need to project,” replied another.

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