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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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 die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man

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