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

Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSEN

Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself

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

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