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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Religion is the opiate of the people.
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
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The Communists have no need to introduce free love it has existed almost from time immemorial.
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