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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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