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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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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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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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