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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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