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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions grac

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. – Thomas Mann

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

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