Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
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Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.
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The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
