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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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