Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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 believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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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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