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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

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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