Finland Quotes - Page 2

• You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, People, Culture

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• It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

  Tarja Halonen

  Mean, Election, Streets

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• Las mujeres evitan los conflictos. Temen la violencia. Los machos, en cambio, son menos reacios a los enfrentamientos. Pero una vez que estalla el conflicto, los machos son mucho mejores a la hora de reconciliarse. En un estudio realizado en Finlandia, se preguntó a niños que se habían peleado cuánto tiempo más pensaban seguir enfadados el uno con el otro. Los chicos respondieron con orgullo: "Oh, al menos uno o dos días". Las chicas dijeron: "Para siempre".

  Frans de Waal

  Niñas, Niños

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Amamos y perdemos en China, lloramos en los páramos de Inglaterra, reímos y gemimos en Guinea y prosperamos en las costas españolas. Buscamos el éxito en Finlandia, nacemos y morimos en Maine. Nos diferenciamos en pequeñas cosas, pero somos iguales en las grandes.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Maine, Way

  Maya Angelou (2015). "La poesía completa", p.227, Random House

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspiración, Divertido, Correr

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• The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Educational, Rich Countries

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• My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

  Sarah Rafferty

  Husband, Party, Scandinavians

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.

  Maurice Levy

  Technology, Nokia, Reason Why

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.

  Mat McNerney

  Vacuums, Band, Care

  "Show No Mercy". Entrevista con Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. 17 th Of July de 2009.

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• Cuando viajas de tu país a otro durante un largo periodo, te das cuenta de las diferencias. Por ejemplo, la expresión verbal es mucho más importante en Francia; en Finlandia no se habla tanto. Además, los finlandeses dicen las cosas directamente; ese tipo de sinceridad directa sería muy descortés en Francia.

  Kaija Saariaho

  País, Honestidad, Expresión

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Ideas, Car

  Vice presidential debate questions, www.politico.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Divorce, Foxes, Explanation

  "Beyond the Welfare State" by Gunnar Myrdal, New Haven, 1958.

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• My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a Baltic country to meet me. But I have to expect that my papers would be confiscated in Moscow immediately, and that they would harass my family. I can still have more impact in the West with my books and lectures.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Mother, Country, Book

  "Putin necesita guerras para legitimar su posición". Entrevista con Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. 10 de noviembre de 2015.

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• I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Real, Musician, Groups

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Connections, Attention

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  País, Guerra, Hombres

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• El problema de escribir un libro sobre uno mismo es que no se puede engañar. Si escribes sobre otra persona, puedes estirar la verdad de aquí a Finlandia. Si escribes sobre ti mismo, la más mínima desviación te hace darte cuenta al instante de que puede que haya honor entre ladrones, pero tú no eres más que un sucio mentiroso.

  Groucho Marx

  Divertidos, Ingeniosos, Mentirosos

  Groucho Marx (2009). "Groucho And Me", p.28, Da Capo Press

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• Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake.

  Pentti Linkola

  Cutting, Winter, White

  "¿Puede prevalecer la vida?". Libro de Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• La zanja de las turberas del siglo XX en Finlandia fue la peor acción humana de destrucción del medio ambiente en Europa.

  Pentti Linkola

  Europa, Medio Ambiente, Zanja

  "¿Puede prevalecer la vida?". Libro de Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

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• We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.

  Gillian Apps

  Moving, Hockey, Practice

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• If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

  Ursula Burns

  Russia, Doors, Names

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• Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Rich Countries, Phones

  "P.J. O'Rourke Takes On 'The Wealth of Nations'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• Un ruso debería alegrarse si Polonia, las Provincias Bálticas, Finlandia, Armenia, fueran separadas, liberadas de Rusia; lo mismo un inglés con respecto a Irlanda, la India y otras posesiones; y cada uno debería ayudar a ello, porque cuanto más grande es el Estado, más erróneo y cruel es su patriotismo, y mayor es la suma de sufrimientos en que se funda su poder. Por lo tanto, si realmente deseamos ser lo que profesamos ser, no sólo debemos cesar en nuestro actual deseo de crecimiento del Estado, sino que debemos desear su disminución, su debilitamiento, y ayudar a que esto avance con todas nuestras fuerzas.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Russia, Growth, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.

  Bruce Cockburn

  País, Pensamiento, América

  Fuente: progressive.org

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