Lennart Meri Quotes

• Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

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  Ties, Yardsticks, Lost

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• Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

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  World, Soviet, Understood

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• If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

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  Iconography, Maps, Geography

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• Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

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  Cities, Big Cities, Bigs

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• Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

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  Virgins, Security, Virginity

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

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  Past, Hunters, Film

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• Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

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  Cows, Milk, Mets

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• History is more interesting than politics.

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  Interesting, Language

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• Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

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  Passion, Needs, Shy

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• Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

  Lennart Meri

  Morning, Mirrors, Ties

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