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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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 never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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

It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.

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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.

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