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As he grew older, he realized the wealthy feared the
future less than the poor. How wealth was attained was less important than gaining it.
He’d named all his children after heroes and heroines of The Kalevala, the national epic poem of Finland.
“When a woman is humiliated, it doesn’t make her less a woman. When a man is humiliated, there are only two choices for him, fight or live in shame.
The politicians make money doing scandal and corruption and the newspapers make money reporting on it.
“The false myth of Marxism is never going to beat the false myth of America.
Everywhere that people rose to right the balance, the forces of “law and order” rose to reset the balance back.
She’d also learned that striking against a single owner was far less effective than striking an entire industry.
“Aino, revolutions require visionary leaders. In America, the visionary leaders go into business.”
“Christians only want Christmas not Good Friday.” She went into the whiny voice again. ““God is bad, boo-hoo.”
“God is the center of the world, not you. You grow up.”
“You are God. I am God. Everything is God. Everything means everythin...
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life’s major decisions. You can’t just change your mind to make it good; you must wait for the next conjunction.
“God is like a rushing waterfall. If you stand in it and try to drink, you will be smashed into the rocks and lost downstream. Antero Vipunen and Jesus are also God, but they are the slow streams at the waterfall’s base that allow us to drink.”
“Socialism, communism, capitalism. All isms are about words and people worship
the words the same way other people worship God.”
“Helping your friend, caring for your child, that’s direct action. The isms just wrap the desire for power, money, and security in pretty words.”
Sisu was also about holding on to dreams.
“Power is the ability to reward or punish. It comes in different currencies: sex, giving or withholding; violence, actual or threatened. The best is money.”
With those you love, you accept that there are only two ways you will not get hurt when you lose them. You stop loving them or you die first.
