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To reassure the sceptic.  'I have no idea how I am acting! I have no idea how I ought to act!'  you are right, but be sure of this: you will be acted upon! at every moment! Mankind has in all ages confused the active and the passive: it is their everlasting grammatical blunder.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book II - Aphorism # 120

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