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Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists
Jurgen Habermas
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Jurgen Habermas
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 18
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Dusseldorf
Jurgen Habermas
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Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
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From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
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The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.
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