It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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There 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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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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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