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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until
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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Allegation Assembly Establish Few Historical Last Repeat Time Week Witness
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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Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
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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Abandon Error Peace Progress Pursuit Relax Setback Success Trail
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Dignity Diminish Genius Indifference Kind Only Other
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
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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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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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Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
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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Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
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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Analysis Answer Conception Death Decide Last Life Question Us
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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Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
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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Allegation Brought Establishment Evidence Longer Order Support

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