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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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 afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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