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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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’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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Finance Follow Rest Sports

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