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...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.

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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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