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Actually, the only things I do for Easter is go to church in the morning and go out for breakfast with a group of Christian friends. And it's not a festival of rebirth in general -- it's a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. (Though, often, rebirth in general is a subsidiary theme.)
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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