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Small: That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all"
August Strindberg, Dramatist
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Small: It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldnt keep our family together. You never get it back, bu
"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"
Agnetha Faltskog, Musician
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Small: No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal Le
Hjalmar Branting
"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations"
Hjalmar Branting, Statesman
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Small: Happiness is good health and a bad memory
Ingrid Bergman
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"
Ingrid Bergman, Actress
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Small: The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
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Small: The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been
Dag Hammarskjold
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict
Dag Hammarskjold
"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been whi
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
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Small: The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the bodys total stre
Dag Hammarskjold
"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity
Dag Hammarskjold
"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of t
Dag Hammarskjold
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character
Dag Hammarskjold
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Is life so wretched? Isnt it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life p
Dag Hammarskjold
"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without dist
Dag Hammarskjold
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: I never discuss discussions
Dag Hammarskjold
"I never discuss discussions"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive
Dag Hammarskjold
"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: I am the vessel. The draft is Gods. And God is the thirsty one
Dag Hammarskjold
"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness
Dag Hammarskjold
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights
Dag Hammarskjold
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what i
Dag Hammarskjold
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
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Small: Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment
Dag Hammarskjold
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon
Dag Hammarskjold
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life tha
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
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Small: Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them
Dag Hammarskjold
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imm
Dag Hammarskjold
"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own bu
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours
Dag Hammarskjold
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: To forgive oneself? No, that doesnt work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if
Dag Hammarskjold
"To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines
Dag Hammarskjold
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: l
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
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Small: Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for
Dag Hammarskjold
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard
Dag Hammarskjold
"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Only he deserves power who every day justifies it
Dag Hammarskjold
"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far hor
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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Small: Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
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