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Quotes by Norwegian Authors

"Health is the core of human development."
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
"Health is the core of human development."
"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again."
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Liv Ullmann
"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again."
"I came into the world at the right time."
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Helge Ingstad
"I came into the world at the right time."
"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
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Thor Heyerdahl
"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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Henrik Ibsen
"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet
Truth, Word
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"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."
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Knut Hamsun
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."
"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."
"There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community."
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Kjell Magne Bondevik
"There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community."
"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."
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
"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."
"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."
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
"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."
"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
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Christian Lous Lange
"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."
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Henrik Ibsen
"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."
"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
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Christian Lous Lange
"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"
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Knut Hamsun
"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"
"The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes."
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Henrik Ibsen
"The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes."
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet
Life, God, First, Man
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"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
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Edvard Grieg
"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer
Eye, Eyes
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"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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Henrik Ibsen
"Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet
Truth, Word
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"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
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Henrik Ibsen
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet
Community,
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"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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Henrik Ibsen
"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured."
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Jan Egeland
"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured."
"In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance."
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
"In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance."
"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."
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Henrik Ibsen
"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."
"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
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Henrik Ibsen
"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth."
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Henrik Ibsen
"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth."
"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority."
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Henrik Ibsen
"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority."
"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
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Asne Seierstad
"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
"Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home."
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Edvard Grieg
"Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home."
"As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war."
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Asne Seierstad
"As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war."
"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."
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Asne Seierstad
"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."
"I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River."
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Trygve Lie
"I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River."
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