Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
Martti Ahtisaari
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
Karl Marx
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
Jackson Pollock
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
Abigail Adams
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...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu
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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler.
Ellen Raskin
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Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.
John Madden
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You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
John Ruskin
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
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I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
Martti Ahtisaari
