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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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