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Mankind doesn't grant itself anything—that is why it has invented the law. It isn't allowed for him so it shouldn't be allowed for others.

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Human stupidity is international.

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At which a diplomat from France replies: "The war? I can't find it too terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!"

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Man has—next to the drives of reproduction and dining—two passions: making noise and not listening.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky
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Born: January 9, 1890
Died: December 21, 1935 (aged 45)
Bio: Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.
Known for:
  1. Castle Gripsholm (1932)
  2. Gedichte
  3. Rheinsberg (1912)

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