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The majority never has right on its side.

Henrik Ibsen

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
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
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing

The majority never has right on its side.

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