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our own purposes and calculations know
The degree of resistance and the degree of superior power—this is the question around which all phenomena turn: if we, for our own purposes and calculations, know how to express this in formulas and "laws," all the better for us!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

out of positions and cannot keep
Thousands of people are out of positions, and cannot keep places when they get them, because of this weakness.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

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