Your personal view on the subject is not always so important. To get a decision, you sometimes have to forget your own ideas, your own views.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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