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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high. The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court. It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it. I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey. The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami. You do have to change things as warfare changes. It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. I'm not big into images. I'm into reality. It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation. So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt


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  1. A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
  2. A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst...
  3. A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
  4. Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become...
  5. Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political...
  6. Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a...
  7. Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
  8. Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
  9. Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the...
  10. For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
  11. For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those...
  12. Human life is beyond comprehension.
  13. I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can...
  14. In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
  15. It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
  16. It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
  17. It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a...
  18. Justice is horrible.
  19. Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
  20. News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have...
  21. Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
  22. One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
  23. Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and...
  24. Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly....
  25. People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
  26. Power is paradoxical.
  27. Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
  28. Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
  29. Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
  30. Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need...
  31. So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master...
  32. Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
  33. The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of...
  34. The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they...
  35. The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars;...
  36. The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
  37. The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
  38. The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
  39. The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
  40. The savages don't have atom bombs.
  41. The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it...
  42. The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
  43. There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of...
  44. There are thoughts we must not think.
  45. There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when...
  46. This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
  47. Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible...
  48. Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia...
  49. Truth is always a delusion.
  50. We are the world.
  51. We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
  52. When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
  53. Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
  54. Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice,...
  55. Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
  56. World history is tragic.
  57. You can't take back an act you were able to think.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
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