Gahr Quotes

#1. O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr.

John D. MacDonald

#2. God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it marvelous to think about how we will be able to actually meet and talk to people who lived throughout history?

David Berg

#3. As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.

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#4. Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

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#5. It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness
and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.

Ayn Rand

#6. This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

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#7. For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

Mike Nichols

#8. As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

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#9. At school, I could see some of my contemporaries were choosing not to be active women - out there, making their own fate - but to be princesses, just waiting to be "found" and married, instead.

Caitlin Moran

#10. According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

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#11. Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

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#12. I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

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#13. Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. I will omit but I will not distort.

Cleveland Amory

#15. Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

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#16. We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

Stephanie Mills

#17. There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

Adam Phillips

#18. I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

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#19. Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

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#20. The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Nhat Hanh

#21. In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

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#22. Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology.

Peter J. Tanous

#23. Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.

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#24. I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Taylor Swift

#25. The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

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#26. A library is a fueling station for your mind.

Steve Leveen

#27. Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

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#28. If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.

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#29. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

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#30. Watch out for men who want to turn everything into a story that's all about them. There will always be a few of them, and once one of them starts, another one of them will want to fight with him.

Chris Beckett