The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI never discuss discussions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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 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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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