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Friendship needs no words.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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Needs
Friendship
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Life yields only to the conqueror.
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Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
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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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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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