It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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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.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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