Debates Held

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“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”
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