Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn 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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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Forgiveness 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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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