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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all."
"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being."
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."
"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."
"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture."
"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"
"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."
"We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect."
"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life."
"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
"Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time."
"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb."
"The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade."
"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics."
"Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it."
"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."
"Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is."
"Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back."
"We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest."
"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia."
"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
"That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast."
"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."
"Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things."
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