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We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact. Hjalmar Soderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905
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Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.
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Our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.
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Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!' *
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Anders Behring Breivik was formally charged under paragraph l47 of the Norwegian Penal Code, the so-called terror paragraph, which carries a maximum penalty of twenty-one years in prison, with the possibility of extension, if the convicted prisoner represents a danger to society.
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Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.
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Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa
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What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not!
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Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.
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Sadiq pondered the nature of war. Everyone was sure that they had the right to the land and the others should be forced to leave. That they had God on their side while the others were in league with the devil. Everyone believed they owned the truth, and everyone seemed thirsty for blood.
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Through the book, I want to give something back to the community from which it sprang. My royalties for this book in Norway are being donated in full to the 'En av oss' (One of Us) foundation. The foundation's statutes allow for the money to be distributed to a wide range of causes nationally and internationally, in the areas of development, education, sport, culture and the environment. I have chosen to let those who contributed most to th..
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A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.
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