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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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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
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
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
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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
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
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
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
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
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
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
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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Completly Diligently Give Individual Mass More Noble Salvation Yourself
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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Allegation Assembly Establish Few Historical Last Repeat Time Week Witness
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

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