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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
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
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself

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