Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
Umberto Eco
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
Quentin Crisp
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
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There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.
George Clooney
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I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.
Faith Erin Hicks
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Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
William James
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
William Booth
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
