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Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
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