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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness 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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies 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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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