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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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

I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

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