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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

~Dag Hammarskjold

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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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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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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.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Also Always Becoming Child Christmas Day Each Grownup Happy He His Long Moment Next Seems Soul Summer Time Waiting Who Whole

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Abandoned Cannot Defeat Either End Errors Few Never Peace Progress Pursuit Relaxed Setbacks Successes Trials Victory Years

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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.

~Dag Hammarskjold

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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

Topics: Being Command Duty Gives Humiliated Life Living Never Only Orders Others Position Receive Right Without You Your

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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

~Dag Hammarskjold

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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.

~Dag Hammarskjold

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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.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Abstraction Drawing Everything Just Know Made Nations People Picasso Right See Stop Themselves Thinking United United Nations Weird Will You

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Diplomat

Born: July 29th, 1905

Died: September 18th, 1961

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