User:Xiong/Ibsen
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- A community is like a ship: every one ought to be prepared to take the helm.
- The most crying need in the humbler ranks of life is that they should be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs. That is what will develop their faculties and intelligence and self-respect.
- You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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- --(An Enemy of the People)
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- A lie, turned topsy-turvy, can be prinked and tinselled out, decked in plumage new and fine, till none knows its lean old carcass. -- (Peer Gynt)
- I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. --(letter to Georg Brandes)
Xiong in younger days, c. 1994 (note lack of gray hairs)
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