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Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
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Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
Politics
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Constantly
Based
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Situations
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