Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo 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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDA 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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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