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“Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.”

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J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty

J. Paul Getty, an American industrialist, was born on December 15, 1892, and passed away on June 6, 1976. He was one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, renowned for building a vast empire in the oil and media industries. more

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