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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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

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