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

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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style

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

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