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"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"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."
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"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."
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"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."
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