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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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.
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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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