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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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Birmingham
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