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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Die Disturb Favor Function Grant Made Party Social Tiptoe
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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Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Lesiyre More Nbusy Work
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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Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Belive Beyond Cease Day Deity Die God Illuminate Live Our Personal Wonder
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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Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Away Demand Feat Life Posses Run Strength
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Fear Freedom Human Right Philosophy Sais Sum Whole
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space
Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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All Create Paly Safe Security Utmost
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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Abstraction All Artist Be Everything Know Painting People Right Themselves Think Weird
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Character Easy Enemy Even Lack Nice
Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Child Cloud Grant Happiness Mate Maturity One Other Play Thing
The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Back Become Everything Life Longer Look Lost Neutral Point Question Stake
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Dignity Diminish Genius Indifference Kind Only Other
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word

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