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- Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to… — Joseph Stalin
- Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Unknown Author
- A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They… — Renny Harlin
- I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman
- Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled… — Paavo Haavikko
- They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell… — Arthur Lydiard
- The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish… — Lafcadio Hearn
- Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the… — Linus Torvalds
- It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at… — Mikhail Bulgakov
- (Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes… — Susan Cain
- My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in… — Michael Franti