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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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