A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society. (Max Frisch)

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Max Frisch

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