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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

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
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

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