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“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
— John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist, founder of Standard Oil
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Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)
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