I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support 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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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