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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
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Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Friedrich Dürenmatt
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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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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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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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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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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