Sigrid Undset Quotes
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
