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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOSPEL OF THE SUPERHUMAN | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Suppose I should take a notion to marry - would I be likely to get the same mentioned in your daffy weekly? Maybe you put in only such as should appear in a column where we see "died." No, I don't, and I can't understand. I question whether you fellows do. J. M. RUDY Ada. Ohio If Subscriber Rudy is the descendant of, or is himself, a famed personage, or if he should marry a woman who is the descendant of, or who is herself, a famed person age, TIME will record his marriage, divorce or death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

There is only one thing I can't understand, and that is why you should give up so much valuable space in your paper as you did to the disgusting Chaplin episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Horace did not look up. Annoyed, the millionaire raised his voice: "I understand you are lending money to my son ... I wish you to know that if you expect me to be responsible for it you are mistaken. I will not pay one cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...work of the fund in combatting race I prejudice is undoubtedly praiseworthy as far it goes. Why an international student organization such as this professes to be should not carry on with equal vigor a war against religious prejudice, it is difficult to understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT FRIENDSHIP FUND | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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