"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.”
“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
“My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I donâ€™t see hallucinations, though.”
“We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'”
“But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that”
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism â€” at least in the sense of this work â€” is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.8
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
“We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.”

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