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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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 am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
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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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness

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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