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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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