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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
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
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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