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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.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
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The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.
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At some moment I did answer Yes to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
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