Jostein Gaarder Quotes
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.
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The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
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What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
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We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!
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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
