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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

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing

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