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Going on ahead.  When one lauds progress, one is lauding only the movement and those who refused to let us stand still  and in certain circumstances much is to be thereby achieved, especially if one is living among Egyptians. In volatile Europe, however, where movement 'goes without saying' as they say  ah, if only we knew what to say about it!  I prefer going on ahead and those who do so: those, that is to say, who again and again leave themselves behind and give no thought to whether anyone else is following behind them. 'Wherever I stop I find myself alone: so why should I stop! The desert still stretches away?  that is the feeling of one who in this way goes on ahead.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book V - Aphorism # 554

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