Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere 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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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 cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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