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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.
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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
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