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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#intact #keep #leaves #opinions #principles

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#big #council #eye #general #general assembly

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

— Harri Holkeri

#open-minded #political #political decisions #reaching #represent

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

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#commit #decisions #easy #first #hard

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

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis. ↗

— Brad Holland

#another #believe #called #emotions #equation

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#ally #both #countries #does #france

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#current #france #leadership #many #may

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#assume #council #development #france #full