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.
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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Never 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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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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