The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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