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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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