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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

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Rupert Murdoch
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 11
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