Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever 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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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 own experience or convictions.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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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