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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
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America should stand for more than just wealth.
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