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David Rockefeller

"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing."

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Donna Grant

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

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Donna Grant

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

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Donna Grant

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

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Donna Grant

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

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Donna Grant

"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."

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Donna Grant

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."

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Donna Grant

"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."

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Donna Grant

"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."

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Donna Grant

"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."

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David Rockefeller
"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing."

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David Rockefeller
"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

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David Rockefeller
"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."

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David Rockefeller
"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."

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David Rockefeller
"When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values."

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David Rockefeller
"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally."

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David Rockefeller
"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."

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David Rockefeller
"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."

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David Rockefeller
"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."

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David Rockefeller
"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."

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