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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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

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