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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Lesiyre More Nbusy Work
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
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
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
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
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
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
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
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
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
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
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
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
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Character Easy Enemy Even Lack Nice
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
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
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
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Day Deserve Every Justify Only Power
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space
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
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
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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Allegation Brought Establishment Evidence Longer Order Support
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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Analysis Answer Conception Death Decide Last Life Question Us

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