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Quotes by Danish Authors
"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."
"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
"More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close."
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
"The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work."
"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
"If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun."
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
"This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named."
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice."
"Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code."
"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."
"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus."
"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."
"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
"My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
"We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money."
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