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Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Spengler
Age: 55 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: May 8
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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
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