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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Away Demand Feat Life Posses Run Strength
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Anguish Bear Burden Loneliness Make Own Share
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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Grow Hand Life Must One Rather Small Wrtech
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
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
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
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
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
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space
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 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
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
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
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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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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
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
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

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