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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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