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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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