Finnish Quotes - Page 2

• A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

  Gertrude Stein

  Time, Communication, Indifference

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Butterfly

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• It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

  Toni Jerrman

  Interesting

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Depth, Campaigns, Fundamentals

  "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p.997, 1990.

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• Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

  Paavo Haavikko

  Over You, Fur, Ears

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