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Raymond Smullyan Quotes: I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
         

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!


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