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

Henrik Ibsen

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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try

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