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Einmal ist keinmal, Nietsche said if something happens only once, it is as good as never happening at all.
What’s the (Dark) Matter? John 2008
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My only remaining question is whether there's any relation between this town and the great scholar Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, editor of Philologische Untersuchungen for 45 years, author of a famous attack on Nietzsche as well as many critical works on Greek history and literature, and creator of the immortal epigram on hack philologists "Einmal heisst keinmal und zweimal heisst immer."
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The Germans say: "Einmal ist keinmal," one time is no time, if it happens once it's as if it never happened.
Salem-News.com 2009
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