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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Henrik Ibsen

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
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’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society 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
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
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

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