Gavin Newsom invoked Nietzsche. I thought of ‘Blazing Saddles.’
" The Abyss " opens with his warning that when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back. " During a chaotic town meeting, Howard Johnson tries to elevate the proceedings.
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" The Abyss " opens with his warning that when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back.
" During a chaotic town meeting, Howard Johnson tries to elevate the proceedings.
"You know, Nietzsche says, 'Out of chaos comes order.'" Olson Johnson replies, "Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard." Mel Brooks provided the more memorable lesson.
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" The Abyss " opens with his warning that when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back. " During a chaotic town meeting, Howard Johnson tries to elevate the proceedings. "You know, Nietzsche says, 'Out of chaos comes order.'" Olson Johnson replies, "Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard." Mel Brooks provided the more memorable lesson.
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- He answered that he would need a "big enough why" to endure almost any "how," invoking Nietzsche, and said he would have to look voters in the eye with a compelling vision.
- I have spent 40 years straining against the limits of my own power, and I have learned how easily "responsibility" becomes a contest of wills.
- So when California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) quoted Nietzsche while discussing a possible presidential run, I thought of Olson Johnson immediately.
- When a governor reaching for the White House quotes Nietzsche on endurance, he is not confessing limits.
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A compelling why does not make the why righteous.
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