Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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