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Malcolm Forbes
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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
Art Collector
Businessperson
Journalist
Politician
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Socialite
Englewood
New Jersey
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes
Steve Forbes
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If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
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The art of conversation lies in listening.
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. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
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We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
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