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.
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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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