Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I never discuss discussions.
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The 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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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