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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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