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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 will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory

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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