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"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
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"In quietness we find inner peace."

"The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!"

"It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world."
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"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."

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

"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."

"In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds."

"Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results."

"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."

"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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