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We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Mechai Viravaidya

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Mechai Viravaidya
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 17
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What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.
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