"I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy."

-- Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

#Mean Quotes #Important Values Quotes #Issues Quotes

“It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.”
“Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.”
“You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.”
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer, Maureen Lukay (2006). “An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture”, Meiner Verlag
“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”
“Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.”
“As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.”
“Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.”

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