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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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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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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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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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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 majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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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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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The devil is compromise.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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