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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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
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
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
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
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Character Easy Enemy Even Lack Nice
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
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
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
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
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 breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Body Break Contract Curve Delicate Gather Journey Meet Muscle Soul Strength Total
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
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Belive Beyond Cease Day Deity Die God Illuminate Live Our Personal Wonder
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Day Deserve Every Justify Only Power
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
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

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