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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Rockefeller

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David Rockefeller
Age: 101 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 12
Died: 2017
Died: March 20
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I do not like to be unkind.
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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
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