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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The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
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There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
