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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself

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