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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
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It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
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