Fridtjof Nansen Quotes

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.

Fridtjof Nansen

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

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• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
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• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

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• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
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• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Judge
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• Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Best
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• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
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• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Jokes
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• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
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  • Challenge

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
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• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
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• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

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• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
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• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

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• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  

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• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  

  R.A. Dickey
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• I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.

  

  Fridtjof Nansen
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Light