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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices when it's absent, everybody notices.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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