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• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

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  Beautiful, Art, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

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  Easy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

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  Important Relationships, Important, Pleasant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.87, Random House

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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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  Art, Past, Done

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• I think I am basically a happy person.

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  Thinking, Happy Person, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

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  Wonderful, Wonderful Life, I Can

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

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  Mother, Europe, World

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

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  Space, Raises, Decided

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• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

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  Mean, Thinking, Museums

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• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

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  Monday, Business, Hard Work

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• 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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  Mother, Art, Museums

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• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

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  Country, Children, Order

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• Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

  David Rockefeller

  People, Important, Gaps

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• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Artist, Interest

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.26, Random House

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