Henrik Ibsen Quotes

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • Country
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• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

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• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
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• This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

  

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  • People
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• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Sometimes
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• You have to respect your opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Respect
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• I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

  

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• What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

  

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• The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyse and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown.

  

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  • Evil
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• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Success
  • Language
  • Force

• All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mother
  • Humanity
  • Should Have

• Learn yourself and love yourself.

  

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• To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

  

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  • Care
  • Act

• I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Mother
  • Beliefs
  • Ghosts