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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “For a paper, as for everything else, men are of an infinitely greater value than money.”

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For a paper, as for everything else, men are of an infinitely greater value than money.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts the value of people over money in the context of running a publication.

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