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People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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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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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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There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
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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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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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