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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Being Destiny Inward Journey Longest Quest Source Start
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
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Character Easy Enemy Even Lack Nice
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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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Accept Atrophy Conquer Gain Give Good Life Live Muscle Stolen Yield
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Body Break Contract Curve Delicate Gather Journey Meet Muscle Soul Strength Total
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
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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Completly Diligently Give Individual Mass More Noble Salvation Yourself
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
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
The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Back Condemned Department Departure Leave Look Myth Paradise Shadow
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

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