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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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

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