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Warren Buffett, on being asked why he bought the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad for $34 billion:

Because my father wouldn’t buy me a train set when I was a kid.

List of assets owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s investment company.  Apparently his dad wouldn’t buy him a Dairy Queen, either.

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Birder, cat-lover, pilot, poet. Former lounge lizard, pauper, pagan, lifeguard, chauffeur,cop and martial artist, turned pacifist addiction writer. Tries to be a good husband, father and brother, and makes a decent friend. Likes to take pictures. Stumbling down the Middle Path, one day at a time.

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