The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn 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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny 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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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