It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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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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