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"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."

"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."

"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

"By faith we will become strong and withstand the spiritual battle warring against us."
Explore more quotes by Georg Brandes

"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty."

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."

"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals."
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