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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Max Weber
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Max Weber
Age: 56 †
Born: 1864
Born: April 21
Died: 1920
Died: June 14
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