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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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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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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately but right it has not.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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