The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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