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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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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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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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
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I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.
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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
