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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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

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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