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"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."
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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S."

"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others."

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

"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."

"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."
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