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Lennart Meri

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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.


— Lennart Meri


#like #security #virginity #you

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


— Lennart Meri


#front #intellect #need #only #passion

History is more interesting than politics.


— Lennart Meri


#interesting #more #politics #than

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.


— Lennart Meri


#am #compliments #estonia #happy #i

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.


— Lennart Meri


#eyes #i #into #looking #notice

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.


— Lennart Meri


#cow #general #i #met #milk

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.


— Lennart Meri


#iconography #maps #prose

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.


— Lennart Meri


#about #admire #always #entirety #films

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


#day #i #look #looking #mirror

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


— Lennart Meri


#between #bit #bond #civilisation #lost






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His warmest memories were from his school years in Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. As Minister of Foreign Affairs Lennart Meri’s first task was to create the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Writer and filmmaker
After a trip to the Tian Shan Mountains in Central Asia and the old Islamic centres in the Kara Kum Desert in 1958 Lennart Meri wrote his first book which met with a warm reception from the public.

Lennart Georg Meri (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈlennɑr̺t ˈɡ̥eorɡ̥ ˈmer̺i]) (29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was a writer film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.

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