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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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 convictions.
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