The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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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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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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