The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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In 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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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