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" According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved. "
Exercise
Health
Risk
" As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene. "
Respect
Best
Child
" As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability. "
Creating
Changes
Change
" Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism. "
Key
Face
Courage
" Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. "
Sympathy
Win
Enemies
" I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty. "
Poverty
Life
Growth
" If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist. "
Real
End
Accepting
" In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics. "
Activity
Interest
Military
" I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside. "
People
Education
Challenge
" My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children. "
Decision
Government
Child
" Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. "
Good
Logic
Nature
" Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country. "
Democracy
Law
Rule Of Law
" Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. "
Dangerous
Ideas
Debate
" The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.' "
Community
Think
Place
" This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground. "
Stage
Facts
History
" Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak. "
Modern
Being
Liberal
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