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"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."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."

"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."

"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"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."

"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."

"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."

"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."

"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
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