"It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering."

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David E. Cooper

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“There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.”

Source : Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.95
“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.”
“Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”
“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”

Source : Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press
“I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.”
“Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?”
“I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.”

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