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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth

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