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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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 own experience or convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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