Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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