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 HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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 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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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