"The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done."

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Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

Alva Myrdal

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“We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.”
“Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.”

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“There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.”
“Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.”
“If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system”
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
“I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.”
“She who is silent everywhere finds peace.”

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