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

— Harri Holkeri

#hope #i #impetus #millennium #nations

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#better #better life #education #emphasis #enables

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

— Harri Holkeri

#divided #european #every #history #nation

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#boy #civil #civil war #finland #finnish

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#africa #been #biggest #countries #developing

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

— Harri Holkeri

#enforcement #kind #more #much #operation

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#born #child #concerned #first #good

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. ↗

— Brad Holland

#high #high school #imitates #life #school

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #art form #consider #form #hobby

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions