Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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