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— Friedrich Nietzsche"Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self."
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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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