"Daniel Coyle, the author of ""Lance Armstrong's War,"" wrote an excellent article in Sunday's N.Y. Times Magazine about Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who has won RAAM the last two years.
""That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger""
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Article on RAAM winner Jure Robic in N.Y. Times
Tue, 02/07/2006 - 12:37pm
Wed, 02/15/2006 - 9:06am
#1
Another interesting piece
"Someone pointed out that there's a 1996 Outside Magazine article on John Stamstad with the same title."
Wed, 02/15/2006 - 9:45am
#2
Friedrich Nietzsche is credited with the quote
The quote is more than 100 years old. I believe that quote or something similar appeared in the late 1800s in German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's book Also Sprach Zarathustra. My German teacher was found of saying it in class, after a particularly nasty quiz.
Wed, 02/15/2006 - 9:59am
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Makes me stranger, not stronger
"""Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens - Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich härter."" (Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me harder.)
-Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung (The Twilight of the Idols), 1888
The title of both of these articles is ""That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger"". Coincidence? Or ""plagiarism""?
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Wed, 02/15/2006 - 10:27am
#4
Not plagiarism of Nietzsche, but maybe of each other
The authors of the two articles (or the headline writers, who may well have been different) may or may not have known the source of the quote, but I think all they intended was a play on words. Of course, the 1996 headline writer got there first so arguably the later one ripped off the 1996 one.
