Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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J.J. did not always flee from men, but he has always loved solitude. He enjoyed himself with the friends he velieved he had, but he enjoyed himself still more alone. He valued their society, but he sometimes needed to withdraw, and he would perhaps have preferred to live always alone than always with them.
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People from different backgrounds approach a subject in different ways and ask different questions.
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Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
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Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.
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That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
