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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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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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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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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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