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A Degree Of Culture, And Assuredly A Very High One, Is Attained When Man Rises Above Superstitions And Religious Notions And Fears, And, For Instance, No Longer Believes In Guardian Angels Or In Original Sin, And Has Also Ceased To Talk Of The Salvation Of His Soul.

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A Degree Of Culture,

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Degree Of Culture, And Assuredly A Very High One, Is Attained When Man Rises Above Superstitions And Religious Notions And Fears, And, For Instance, No Longer Believes In Guardian Angels Or In Original Sin, And Has Also Ceased To Talk Of The Salvation Of His Soul.

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You Shall Become The Person You Are.

Distance Running

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He Who Bears Injustice Alone Is Terrible To Behold.

The Higher Man Is Distinguished From The Lower By His Fearlessness And His Readiness To Challenge Misfortune.

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Energy Wasted On Negative Ends.

Some People Appear To Be More Meager In Talent Than They Are, Just Because The Tasks They Set Themselves Are Always Too Great.

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The Bite Of Conscience Is Indecent.

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Once Blasphemy Again God Was The Greatest Blasphemy; But God Died, And Thereupon Those Blasphemers Died Too.

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