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But I repeat my question: "Who indicates everyone's place within an elite and who sizes up everyone? Who establishes the selection and consecrates the members of the new elite?" I answer: "The previous elite."

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

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We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

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