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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Maxim Gorky

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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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