It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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