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
Quotes to Explore
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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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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen
