The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without … - Shirley Hazzard

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Shirley Hazzard

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

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Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

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Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

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At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

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It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

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