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Anne Holm, born on September 10, 1922, was a distinguished journalist from Denmark. Her career began in the 1950s, during which she reported on major news events, known for her insightful reporting and profound understanding of the news.

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Fear Freedom Courage

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“He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch – and now he was David, his own master, free…”

Freedom Individuality Holocaust

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“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.”

Inspirational Children Wisdom Books

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“Freedom was precious, and he had nothing to defend it with.”

Freedom

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“Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.”

Life Quotes Freedom

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“Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.”

Freedom Decision Stupidity

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“The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.”

Long Hands Left Water Sun Masters Breaths Smell Knees Camps Dirt Deep Breath Drop Of Water

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“And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.”

Ifs Men Eye Care Choices Goes On Quiet Lonely His Eyes Desperate Old Man Free Choice

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“Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.”

Way Persons Said Use Problem Hands Felt Brain Violence Stupid Solutions Blow Strikes Cruelty Logical Stupid Person Violence And Cruelty

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“There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.”

Consequence Faults

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“Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.”

Can Do Responsibility Let Me Faults Can't Change Often Is Can Do Something Shirk

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“And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.”

Important Might Differences

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“The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.”

Thinking

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“Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.”

Made Joy

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“Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.”

Ifs Might Faces Danger Brave Things To Do Right Thing Frightened

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“You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.”

People Accepting Honest Being Honest Bad People Bribe Bribery Honest People

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“Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.”

People Remember Dies Left Born Behinds Gone Sorrow Left Behind

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About the Author

Born: September 10, 1922
Died: December 27, 1998
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 17

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