Harri Holkeri Quotes

• En Finlandia tenemos los mismos derechos políticos para hombres y mujeres. No nos consideramos en función del sexo.

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  Sexo, Hombres, Derechos

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• Si llegas a una mesa de negociación diciendo que tienes la verdad final, que no sabes nada más que la verdad y que eso es definitivo, no conseguirás nada.

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  Inspirational, Finals, Tables

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• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

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  Men, Rights, Different

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

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  Challenges, Trying, Obstacles

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• Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

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  Party, Rebuilding, Succeed

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• 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.

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  Consensus Building, Ideas, Tables

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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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  Thinking, Years, Differences

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• Si nos remontamos a la historia de las distintas naciones, la violencia y el uso de la fuerza forman parte de su patrimonio. Son tradiciones de la humanidad.

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  Different, Heritage, Use

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

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  Decision, Political, Way

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• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

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  Goal, Decision, Finals

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• Cuando empezaron los problemas en Irlanda del Norte, no era una cuestión de protestantismo o catolicismo, porque la iglesia católica era la única iglesia en aquel momento, era un conflicto nacionalista.

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  Catholic, Church, Problem

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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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  Teaching, May, Individual

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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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  Children, Grandfather, Vision

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• 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.

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  Girl, Country, Europe

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• 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.

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  Eye, Issues, President

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• El mar Báltico está cada vez más contaminado. No todos los que viven cerca de la costa del Mar Báltico lo protegen. Es el agua de la vida para países como Finlandia y Suecia.

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  Country, Sea, Water Of Life

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

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  Giving, Millennium, United Nations

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• Finlandia tuvo una guerra civil hace menos de 100 años, igual que en Irlanda. Si nos fijamos en la historia de las nuevas naciones independientes, la guerra civil está presente casi siempre, incluso en Estados Unidos.

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  War, Independent, Years

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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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  Thinking, Talking, Giving

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• I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

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  Thinking, Decision, Political

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• Si hay algo que me gustaría hacer como Presidenta de la Asamblea General es poner más énfasis en la cuestión de la educación, que permite una vida mejor para las mujeres.

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  Issues, President, Better Life

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

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  Problem, Divided, Has Beens

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• La imposición de la paz es un tipo de operación mucho más difícil que el mantenimiento de la paz.

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  Enforcement, Kind, Operations

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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.

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  Order, People, Mind

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• Mi opinión sobre quién está equivocado o quién tiene razón no tiene nada que ver con el hecho de que tengamos que unir a personas que están enfrentadas, para transformar el antagonismo en cooperación.

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  People, Together, Facts

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