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Quote by Paavo Haavikko

“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.”

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Paavo Haavikko was a prominent Finnish poet known for his unique poetic style and profound social and political commentary. His works hold a significant place in Finnish literary history and have had a profound impact on subsequent poets. more

“In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's the fourth, but it's quite early - and the leading lady usually sits down on something; sometimes it's a tree stump in Brigadoon, sometimes it's under the pillars of Covent Garden in My Fair Lady, or it's a trash can in Little Shop of Horrors... but the leading lady sits down on something and sings about what she wants in life. And the audience falls in love with her and then roots for her to get it for the rest of the night.”

“A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.”

Men Hard Hands Earth Suffering Lessons Fruit Hard Lessons

Book:Texas Tomboy

Source: Texas Tomboy

“It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.”

Knows Reflection Sermons

Author:Lord David Cecil

“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”

World Children Religion Differences Religious Teaching Taught Teaching Children Handing Over

Author:Polly Toynbee

“The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.”

Body Christianity Middle Islam Pens Disgusting Primitive Eastern Judaism Women's Bodies Islamophobia Christianity And Judaism

Author:Polly Toynbee

“Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.”

Body Christianity Islam Disgusting Judaism Women's Bodies Islamophobia Christianity And Judaism

Author:Polly Toynbee

“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

Running Literature Sea Habit Degrees Rivers Ill Unseen Brooks Bad Habits Good Habits Daily Habits

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

“BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.”

Men Enemy Truth Is Boredom Free Man

Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”

Giving Real Order Social Economic Members Tasks Productions Contradiction Cracks Symptoms Patches Appearing Social Order Patch Up

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

Quote by Paavo Haavikko

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