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"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."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
"Experience is a sacred education."
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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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."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
"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."
"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 Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political 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."
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