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.
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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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