The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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