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live and let live

NOUN
laissez-faire
Synonyms
WEAK
do-nothing policy for the most free enterprise free hand inaction indifference individualism laisser aller laisser passer latitude let-alone policy neutrality noninterference nonintervention nonrestriction part unrestrained by law free trade permissiveness

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We've got to be live and let live in this world, otherwise we're not going to make it a species.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2023

“In my opinion, we’re on this earth to help each other through it all, period. … I just feel like, live and let live, period.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

George Kennan, the American diplomat in Moscow, sends what is known as the long telegram, saying there can be no modus vivendi, there can be no live and let live with Moscow.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2022

“For my personal viewpoint, I think the idea of live and let live is alive and well,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Why couldn’t people just live and let live?

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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