I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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