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" Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dumb
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" Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. "
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" Truth is always a delusion. "
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" Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. "
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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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" For a person who is dying only eternity counts. "
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" Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. "
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" It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim. "
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" We are the world. "
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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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" A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. "
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" I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him. "
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" Power is paradoxical. "
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" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "
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" World history is tragic. "
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" The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. "
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" The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. "
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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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" We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. "
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" The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. "
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" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "
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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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" A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. "
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" Justice is horrible. "
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" There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. "
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" A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. "
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" The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. "
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" News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. "
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