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"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life"
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Georg Simmel
between March 1, 1858 and September 28, 1918. He/she was a famous
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