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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Choose Destiny Frame Our Permitted Put
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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Belive Beyond Cease Day Deity Die God Illuminate Live Our Personal Wonder
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Child Cloud Grant Happiness Mate Maturity One Other Play Thing
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Fear Freedom Human Right Philosophy Sais Sum Whole
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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All Create Paly Safe Security Utmost
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until

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