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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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"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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"Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility."
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"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."
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"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being."
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"The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past."
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"I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image."
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"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived."
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"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."

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