I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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