In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt 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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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 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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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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