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Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

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"These currents control us; we do not control them." So eloquently set out by Leo Tolstoy over 150 years ago in War and Peace. I wish wannabe "great men" / "world saviors" would read or re-read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. It might take up a lot of their time but they might be doing less harm while busy with it or even pause to reflect.

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