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Quotes & Thinkers from Norway

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"It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth."

Thorstein Veblen· b. 1857View quote →

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🇳🇴Thorstein Veblen

Economics

1857–1929

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

"There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!"

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"Deep in the human nature there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable."

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🇳🇴Henning Solberg

b. 1973

"we break..we break, we broke a braike...a breakpipe, so we have to fix it."

"Had it not been for immigrants, there had been no housing crisis in Oslo."

"Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder."

"come from North Norway,, – and all of the other regions. Norwegians have immigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland, from Sweden, Somalia and Syria. My grandparents came here from Denmark and England 110 years ago."

"I like the idea of an international career, it appeals to me on a personal level. Absorbing different cultures make you a better actor. It makes you very ambiguous, which is how I describe myself."

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🇳🇴Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Politics

1962–2024

"One reason for the increased interest in studies of identity in anthropology may be the fact that issues to do with the nature of groups have become hugely important in politics worldwide in the last decades."

🇳🇴Gro Harlem Brundtland

Politics

b. 1939

"Tobacco is a communicated disease – communicated through marketing."

"I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic."

"DIO vol.10 2000 Amundsen's unparalleled record of polar firsts, including evidence that he was 1st to each geographical pole."

"He is my wife in the car.. ehh... no sex."

"Some anti-fascist protesters, the so-called "Antifa," use pepper spray against the marchers, including me."

"In our modern world, mass hunger, economic stagnation, environmental catastrophe, political instability, and terrorism cannot be quarantined within national borders."

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🇳🇴Ingeborg Refling Hagen

Literature

1895–1989

"She was so open and frank... She made space around her, if we just behaved... Everybody seemed to trust this woman and gathered gladly around her."

"The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer."

🇳🇴Peter Wessel Zapffe

Philosophy

1899–1990

"Let the earth be silent after ye!" by Erik M. Lieungh, University of the Arctic"

"Faith in the Word of Life is the strongest power that exists in the universe."

"If the ruling class thinks that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life."

"Granli a bit slow, had he kastet seg he could have reddet."

"Exclusive Kate Havnevik Interview on Tiffcast"

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🇳🇴Kjell Magne Bondevik

Politics

b. 1947

"I think it can be things for me to write down in my daybook."

"And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood."

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🇳🇴Petter Northug

Sports

"Who’s the man?! I’m the man! etter stafetten som Norge vant."

"My grammar is bad, but my meaning is good."

"Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation."

"In the near future, the web is going to be the master copy of human knowledge. We need to figure out ways to use that knowledge."

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🇳🇴Anders Behring Breivik

Business

Marxism

b. 1979

"I took a year off when I was 25 and played WoW PvE hardcore for a year. ... I’m currently playing Modern Warfare 2 casually."

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🇳🇴Magnus Carlsen

b. 1990

"He played the Berlin, I played the most solid line, yada yada yada, let's go to the doping control."

"John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met."

"The Cocka Hola Company. Skandinavisk misantropi"

"Biographies and handwritten manuscripts from the Abel Prize website"

"Claus Pavels: Autobiographi, s. 58. Christiania: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, 1866."

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Notable Quotes

"The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction."

— Thorstein Veblen, b. 1857View →

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

— Thorstein Veblen, b. 1857View →

"The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure."

— Thorstein Veblen, b. 1857View →

"All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas."

— Thorstein Veblen, b. 1857View →

"However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods."

— Thorstein Veblen, b. 1857View →

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