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

Henrik Ibsen

I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSEN

Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN

Feature Hold Man Right
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fair Majority Support Truth

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