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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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