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 HAMMARSKJOLDYour position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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