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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Henrik Ibsen

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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role

It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

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