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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."
"There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter."
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
"It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries."
"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
"Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes."
"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights."
"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them."
"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
"While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive."
"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."
"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."
"Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection."
"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."
"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."
"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first."
"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
"In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor."
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."
"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money."
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