The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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 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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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