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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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