The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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 cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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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.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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