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Quotes by Swedish Authors

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
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Alva Myrdal
"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
"True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense."
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
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Alva Myrdal
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
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Alva Myrdal
"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
"To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means."
"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind."
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
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Dag Hammarskjold
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
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"Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why."
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Max von Sydow
"Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why."
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"We need new partnerships for peace and security."
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Anna Lindh
"We need new partnerships for peace and security."
"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood."
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Annni-Frid Lyngstad
"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood."
"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."
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Lasse Hallstrom
"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."
"For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world."
"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
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Ingrid Bergman
"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
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Alva Myrdal
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."
"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
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Lasse Hallstrom
"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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Lasse Hallstrom
"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."
"I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first."
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Astrid Lindgren
"I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first."
"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting."
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Niklas Zennstrom
"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting."
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
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Dag Hammarskjold
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
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Alva Myrdal
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
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Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
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Alva Myrdal
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."
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Eyvind Johnson
"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."
"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."
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Stellan Skarsgard
"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."
"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
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Dag Hammarskjold
"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
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Greta Garbo
"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
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"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
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Steig Larsson
"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."
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Lasse Hallstrom
"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."
"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."
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Dag Hammarskjold
"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."
"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."
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Max von Sydow
"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."
"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."
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Niklas Zennstrom
"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."
"I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs."
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Hannes Alfven
"I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs."
"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."
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Greta Garbo
"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."
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"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"
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Malin Akerman
"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"
"The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes."
"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek."
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Malin Akerman
"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek."
"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently."
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Niklas Zennstrom
"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently."
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
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Alva Myrdal
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free."
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Niklas Zennstrom
"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free."
"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."
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Max von Sydow
"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."
"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
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Niklas Zennstrom
"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
"It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me."
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Bjorn Borg
"It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me."
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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Dag Hammarskjold
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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August Strindberg
"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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