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"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
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Personal Development
"When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another."
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Personal Development
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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Personal Development
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
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Personal Development
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
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Personal Development
"Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us."
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Personal Development
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."
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Personal Development
"There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments."
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"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
Change
"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States."
History
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
Decision-Making
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
Philosophy
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
Education
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
Man
"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."
Environment
"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
Difference
"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."
Education
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
Change
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