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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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