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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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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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
