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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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