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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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