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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

It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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

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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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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