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Juho Kusti Paasikivi was the seventh President of Finland . Representing the Finnish Party and the National Coalition Party, he also served as Prime Minister of Finland , and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years. He is remembered as a main architect of Finland's foreign policy after the Second World War. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. November 1870 – 14. December 1956
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Juho Kusti Paasikivi Quotes

“The beginning of all wisdom is acknowledgement of facts.”

Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Source: Quoted on the Paasikivi monument in Helsinki, supposedly originating from Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom

“"The immutable Russian policy is to get whatever they can with the least possible effort, and then ask for more. They never sacrifice their immediate benefits for future goals. They never take into account what has been said, but what has been done. They try to exact a high price for anything that they understand they have to do in any case. They are immune to ethical, humanitarian and abstract juridical arguments, being affected only by practical and realistic points of view."”

Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Source: Paasikivi in a private letter (1891) from Novgorod, studying Russian culture on a grant.

Understanding , Effort , Future

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