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A utility room.
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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
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I have a nice life but if everybody else had a better quality of life, too, Britain would be a nicer place.
OCD medication.
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This is why I could speak the way I did yesterday. In California, the stroke is incredible grace because it gives me a prescription to buy pot. ... Pot takes away the pain and frees me from spasticity. ... The marijuana gives me soul perspective. It makes the stroke livable.
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Nick Robinson
British political journalist
Self-discipline.
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The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
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