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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

David Rockefeller

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David Rockefeller
Age: 101 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 12
Died: 2017
Died: March 20
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