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The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
Anarchist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Pyotr Kropotkin
Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
P. Kropotkin
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