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All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Spengler
Age: 55 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: May 8
Historian
Mathematician
Philosopher
Sociologist
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Blankenburg/Harz
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
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