We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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