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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More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I never discuss discussions.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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