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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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 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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

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