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Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes: It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
         

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.


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