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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong

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