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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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