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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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