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A Community Is Like A Ship; Everyone Ought To Be Prepared To Take The Helm.

It Is Not For A Care-free Existence I Am Fighting, But For The Possibility Of Devoting Myself To The Task Which I Believe And Know Has Been Laid Upon Me By God -- The Work Which Seems To Me More Important And Needful In Norway Than Any Other, That Of Arousing The Nation And Leading It To Think Great Thoughts.

Don't Use That Foreign Word: Ideals. We Have The Excellent Native Word: Lies.

The Most Dangerous Enemy Of The Truth And Freedom Amongst Us Is The Compact Majority

Everything I Touch Seems Destined To Turn Into Something Mean And Farcical.