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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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Otto Eduard Leopold
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