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"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."
"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."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."
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