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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

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