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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Henrik Ibsen

A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public

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