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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

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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 the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

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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