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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled --because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it.

Source: The Wanderer and His Shadow, aph. 251, 1880.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.

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