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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!

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth

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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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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