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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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 costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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 plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority

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