In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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