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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN

Feature Hold Man Right
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
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
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
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution

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