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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Accept Certain Heard History Invoke Verdict
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Day Deserve Every Justify Only Power
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
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
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
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
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
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
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Draft God One Thirsty Vessel
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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All Create Paly Safe Security Utmost
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
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
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until
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
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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
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
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
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

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