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Paul Getty

"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."

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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."

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"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."

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