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Nietzsche was a fervent admirer of individuality and would have considered the idea of the higher man as state creation both absurd and abhorrent.

the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.

Does anything other than the axiomatic acceptance of the divine value of the individual make slavery a self-evident wrong?

Worse means that naive beliefs can become a positive invitation to abuse, because those who aim to harm have become specialized to prey on people who think precisely such things.

Restraining orders work best, however, with the sort of person who would never require a restraining order.

People who refuse to muster appropriately self-protective territorial responses are laid open to exploitation as much as those who genuinely can't stand up for their own rights because of a more essential inability or a true imbalance in power.

is the case that forced redistribution, in the name of utopian equality, is a cure to shame the disease.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100%.

How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that's sin. That's failure to hit the mark. And the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being,

Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? (Mark 8:36)

Adam," calls God, apparently forgetting that He can see through bushes,

The first number is a prospect's level of certainty about your product; the second number is their level of certainty about you; the third number is their level of certainty about your company; the fourth number addresses their action threshold; and the fifth number addresses their pain threshold.

If everything were anything," Chance said softly, "the barriers would break down, and we'd all lose ourselves to chaos. And then there would be no cotton candy.

I did my best not to smirk. It blows my "Don't mind me, I never notice anything," smokescreen when I give in to smirkiness.

Revised Sherlock Holmes quote) It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say "dig" with a straight face without referring to the process of using a tool to remove dirt from the ground.)

Queipo de Llano había dicho: «De Madrid haremos una ciudad, de Bilbao una fábrica, de Barcelona un solar». Arrasarlo todo. Como en 1714.

Professor olhou o peito de Boa-Vida. Estava todo picado da varíola. Mas no lugar do coração Professor viu uma estrela. Uma estrela no lugar do coração.

Exu eats anything in the way of food, but he drinks only one thing: straight rum. At the crossroads Exu waits sitting upon the night to take the most difficult road, the narrowest, the most winding, the bad road, it is generally held, for all Exu wants is to frolic, to make mischief. Exu, the great mischief-maker, Vadinho's patron deity.