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Quotes by Norwegian Authors
"Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment."
"Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history."
"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries."
"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
"Cancers of all types among women are increasing."
"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."
"The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them."
"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more."
"Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour."
"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do."
"Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable."
"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur."
"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."
"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings."
"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately."
"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."
"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."
"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
"A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society."
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources."
"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."
"Health is the core of human development."
"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies."
"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities."
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries."
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time."
"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
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