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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Defeat End Few Progress Pursuit Victory Year
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 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
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
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
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
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
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space
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
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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Abandon Error Peace Progress Pursuit Relax Setback Success Trail
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Animal Ask Attend Crave God Human Prayer
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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
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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Allegation Assembly Establish Few Historical Last Repeat Time Week Witness
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
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Accept Certain Heard History Invoke Verdict

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