Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – 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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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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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