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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory

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