“If the disagreement was strong enough, we could end up pretty close to the borderline of incivility.”

— David Rockefeller

Describing his confrontations with a rival at the Chase Manhattan Bank, as quoted in "Born to Be Mild" in The New York Times (20 October 2002)

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American banker and philanthropist 1915–2017

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