“Great men, like great ages, are explosives in which a tremendous force is stored up. Their precondition is always, historically and psychologically, that for a long time much has been gathered, stored up, saved up, and conserved for them, in that there has been no explosion for a long time. Once the tension in the mass has become too great, then the most accidental stimulus suffices to summon into the world the ‘genius’, the ‘deed’, the great destiny. What does the environment matter then, or the age, or the ‘spirit of the age’, or ‘public opinion?'” —Friedrich Nietzsche
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Julian Assange – Heroes Are Hard to Find
