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"When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good."
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"Big Brother is watching you."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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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

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

"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

"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."
Truth

"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
Decision-Making

"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
Peace

"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."
Life

"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."
Truth

"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
Decision-Making

"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
Politics
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