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Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes: 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.
         

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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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.



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