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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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