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Quotes by Norwegian Authors
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
58
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."
45
"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."
32
"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."
32
"A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally."
24
"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
22
"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available."
20
"The burden of disease falls on the poor."
20
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
20
"It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it."
19
"Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men."
19
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."
18
"Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes."
18
"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."
18
"We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans."
18
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
17
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
17
"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
17
"Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based."
16
"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis."
16
"I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat."
16
"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."
16
"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."
15
"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."
15
"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire."
15
"Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual."
Body,
15
"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse."
15
"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."
15
"The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind."
14
"With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year."
14
"The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism."
14
"If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex."
14
"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
13
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
12
"No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states."
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