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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
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
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship

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