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.
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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Destiny 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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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