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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Henrik Ibsen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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’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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live

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