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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

Warren Buffett

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