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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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

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