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not a reactive but a deliberate and
They must reflect the complete state (either of a people or of a culture), and express its most profound and most secret nature, at a time when it is still stable and not yet discoloured by the imitation of foreign things (or when it is still dependent ...); not a reactive but a deliberate and progressive spirit, saying Yea in all circumstances, even in its hate.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

nor a repetition but a divine application
How manifest it is that the fifth division of the Pentateuch is neither a contradiction nor a repetition, but a divine application of its divinely inspired predecessors!
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Not a radical but a Dissenter and
“Not a radical, but a Dissenter; and you who are a clergyman, Mr. May!
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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